Private Robert Burrows was born in Liverpool around 1882 to Samuel and Catherine Burrows to Samuel and Catherine Burrows. According to the According to the 1911 census, 18-year-old Robert was living with his parents, his two brothers, William (28) and Arthur (14), and three sisters, Jessie (16), Louise (12) and Elizabeth (7) at 10 Rose Street, Woolton.

Robert was later employed as a domestic gardener at Dousfield Allerton and, in the newspaper report of his death, was remembered as a “popular member” of the Woolton Village Club and St Peter’s Football Club.

He served in the 18th Battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment (the Pals), serial number 24585. He was killed on July 30, 1918, by bomb and, as reported in a letter from one of his Woolton comrades, Harry Quick, died instantly.

The newspaper report of Bob Burrows’ death is also poignant in that it reports that he “came safely through the first glorious charge by the Pals on the 1st July.”

At the time of his death, Bob’s brother, Arthur, was serving in the Machine Gun Corps with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

Robert is remembered with Honour in Citadal New Military Cemetery, Fricord (Somme area of France).