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Military service
Service number:
V/56742
Age:
23
Rank:
Stoker
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Regina
Death:
August 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 12.
Additional information
Son of James Edward and Gertrude E. Burrows, of Brantford, Ontario; husband of Evelyn Victoria Burrows, of Brantford.
Digital gallery of Stoker Ernest Edward Burrows
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Photo of Ernest Edward Burrows
While serving on the corvette, H.M.C.S. Regina he lost his life on August 8, 1944 when his corvette was sunk trying to assist an American merchant ship in the English Channel. -
Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
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Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me
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Stoker Ernest Edward Burrows
Digital gallery of
Stoker Ernest Edward Burrows
Digital gallery of
Stoker Ernest Edward Burrows
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 263 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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