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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 February 1913 Surrey, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 November 1944 (aged 31) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Club | London Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
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John Hardy Burrough (1913-1944) was a male rower who competed for England.
Burrough rowed for the London Rowing Club. [1]
He represented the England team [2] and won a gold medal in the eights event at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia. [3]
He was the son of Ernest James Burrough and Sophie Burrough, of Epsom, Surrey. He was an works control chemist (distillery and winery) by trade and lived in Downs Avenue, Epsom during 1938.
He was killed during World War II, in 1944 when serving as a flight lieutenant with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial. [4]
