MIDSHIPMAN KILDARE BORROWES

LEINSTER LEADER 10 JUNE 1916

During the great sea fight between the German High Sea Fleet and Admiral Beatty’s squadron in the North Sea on Friday last the Queen Mary, one of the great battleships and sister of the Queen Elizabeth, was sent to the bottom. Not a single sailor escaped. When the mighty vessel went underneath the cold North Sea, waves closed over the body of Midshipman Edward Kildare Burrowes, a lad of 16, and the only surviving representative of the Burrowes family in Kildare.

He was a nephew of Mrs Johnson, of Athy, the wife of the respected Archdeacon Johnson, and great sympathy is felt for herself and her family

The late Midshipman Burrowes was the only son of Mr. Eustace Burrowes, of Donnybrook, Dublin, and nephew of Sir Kildare and Lady Burrowes, of Barrettstown Castle, Ballymore-Eustace, Co. Kildare. He was heir-presumptive to the Baronetey, his father being the only surviving brother of Sir Kildare Burrowes, a younger brother having been killed in action in France during the earlier stages of the war. Midshipman Burrowes was well known in the Ballymore district and the utmost sympathy is felt for his bereaved relatives at his untimely demise.

Re-typed by Hannah Mustapha