Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave of Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Cambrin Churchyard Ext
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
After 1 Jan 1916	~	Walsgrave on Sowe
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted Date	Other War Memorials
Local actions near Bethune	November 1914 at Coventry (see below)	Galley Common
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
Le Quesnoy	~

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

The CWGC record Ernest's death as being on 6 Jun 1916. However the battalion war diary makes no mention of any casualties on the 6th or the 7th of June. At that the battalion was in the front lines at Le Quesnoy east of Bethune.

However a report in the Coventry Standard dated 16 Jun 1916 states that: "Private Ernest James Burrows, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was buried and suffocated in a dug-out in the trenches by a shell bursting on Wednesday morning, June 7th. Pte. Burrows was a nephew of Supt. Drakeley of Longford Police Station and of Mr. Thomas Hewitt of Walsgrave, residing with the later when he enlisted in November 1914 together will all the other members of the Walsgrave St. Mary's Football Team. When he first volunteered the doctor failed to pass him, but he went through an operation at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital and was subsequently passed into service."