Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Thomas Ross Burrows
Ancestor's date of birth: 17/08/1880
Ancestor's date of death: 19/06/1935
Cause of Death: Unknown
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Son of a farmer, rural contract worker.
Service Number: 1569
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Melbourne
Unit: 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: CPL, Date Effective: 14/02/1901
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War Military Service
Murray Page: 299
Contingent: Fifth Victorian
Ship: Orient, Date of Sailing: 16/02/1901
Memorial details: VMR Memorial Melbourne.
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Kept a diary while in South Africa.
Reasons to go and fight: Possibly because older brother, William John Burrows, had previously enlisted and was wounded, taken prisoner of war and later released.
Details of service in war: March 1901 - March 1902 in east Transvaal and Natal frontier, including defeat at Wilmansrust where he was captured, stripped of all he possessed, then released (12 June 1901). Hospitalised, possibly due to enteric fever, December 1901 to March 1902.
Service and life after the Boer War: Joined Victorian Police Force January 1903 rose to rank of Sub-inspector.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Ian Russell Gordon, Richmond NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: GrandsonName of Descendant: Jill Rosemary Hampson, Donvale VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandaughter
