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Military service
Service number:
A/104565
Age:
21
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Death:
December 12, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 10.
Additional information
Son of William Herbert and Emma Burrough, of Palmerston, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Ashford Herbert Burrough
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Grave marker
Nijmegen, Holland, December 12, 1944 – Royal Winnipeg Rifles assigned to a Pioneer Company, under the command of Lieutenant D.C. Mackenzie, sent out to repair a road. Lieutenant Mackenzie ordered ten men into the open compartment of Universal Carrier WD number CZ201179 with a driver (Rifleman E.H. Tricker, a qualified Carrier Driver, Class III), co-driver and himself in the front. The carrier was also towing a 5cwt trailer stacked with picks and shovels. As the carrier made its way across the top of a dyke, the driver lost control and slid down an embankment, turning over, pinning seven soldiers under the overturned vehicle and drowning them. Killed along with H8778 Rifleman T. Chaske were: A104565 Rifleman A.H. Burrough, F65759 Rifleman J.E. Duffy, H40814 Rifleman G. Lennox, H42140 Rifleman W.H. Rutland, H41296 Rifleman J. Delipper and L104439 Rifleman E.H. Tricker. -
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Rifleman Ashford Herbert Burrough
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Ashford Herbert Burrough
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Commemorated on:
Page 263 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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