Deanshanger Village Heritage Society

Frederick Townrow Burrows

Photograph taken by Vicky Thorpe in 2024, grave of Frederick and his parents in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Deanshanger

Frederick Townlow Burrows

BORNWolverton, Buckinghamshire in 1891
LIVEDHome Farm House Deanshanger, Northamptonshire
EnlistedAylesbury
Death13 December 1918 at Highfields, a farm in the village of Adstone, near Towcester. Diagnosed with Typhoid Fever in military hospital near Le Touquet, France in 1915, returned to Northamptonshire for recovery and then suffered from pleurisy from which he did not recover
BuriedHoly Trinity Churchyard, Deanshanger
Rank & RegimentPrivate 2389 Oxon and Bucks Light Infantry
FatherFrederick John Burrows b. 1853 Passenham Parish
MotherAnnie Marie Pittam b. 1862 Neithrop, nr Banbury
NotesThe Burrows family had a threshing machine hire business in Deanshanger from 1870s until the First Word War