The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Five: Private W. G. Burrows, South Wales Borderers, who served at Tsingtao, 1914

1914-15 Star (10781 Pte., S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (10781 Pte., S. Wales Bord.); Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, mounted as worn, fine and better (5) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Walter George Burrows was born in Lambeth. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for the South Wales Borderers at Chatham on 18 April 1912, aged 19 years, 4 months. On the outbreak of the Great War Burrows was present with the 2nd Battalion stationed in China where they formed part of the international garrison at Tientsin. In September 1914 the battalion, supported by half a battalion of the 36th Sikhs, joined their Japanese allies in an expedition against the German occupied territory of Kiaochow and its port of Tsingtao. When Tsingtao fell on 7 November 1914 it provided the regiment with a battle honour held by no other regiment of the British Army. The battalion, with Burrows, returned to England in January 1915 and in April it was posted to Gallipoli. Burrows transferred to Section B Army Reserve on 25 May 1919. With copied research.