9th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
06/06/1894
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
22
Summary
George Burrows was the son of James and Sarah Burrows. He was born on 6th June 1894 in the Donaghmore area. They were a farming family. George Burrows was in the employment of Lord Ranfurly. George Burrows enlisted in Dungannon. Lance Corporal George Burrows was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the 1st July 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
