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Military service
Service number:
V/7988
Age:
22
Rank:
Leading Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Athabaskan
Death:
April 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 11.
Additional information
Son of William V. T. and Florence Burrow, of Toronto, Ontario.
The province of Ontario honoured Leading Seaman Burrow by naming Burrow Lake in his honour.
Digital gallery of Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
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Photo of WILLIAM OLIVER BURROW
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
Digital gallery of
Leading Seaman William Oliver Burrow
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 263 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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