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Personal info

Full name
BURROWS, Richard Spencer
Date of birth
1 June 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Ogden, Weber County, Utah
Hometown
Evanston County, Utah

Military service

Service number
O-1557422
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
Reconnaissance Company,
1st Battalion,
33rd Armored Regiment,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 September 1944
Place of death
Rottgen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 14 9

Immediate family

Members
James S. Burrows (father)
Lydia H. (Winters) Burrows (mother)
James E. Burrows (brother)
Kenneth Burrows (brother)
Melba (McDonald) Burrows (wife)
Patricia A. Burrows (daughter)

More information

Lt Burrows graduated from Ogden High School and Weber College. He was a manager of the produce department of Stimmon´s market and an ammunition inspector at Ogden arsenal.

He enlisted in November 1942 and was sent overseas in Octobe, 1943

He was reported wounded in action on 26 July 1944. after recovering he rejoined his unit.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Fosse, Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, Noel Nellis, Robert H. Burrows, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Jeff Hall / S. Vogel