The Burrows
Anthony was posted to North Africa in October 1941, a couple of months before their son Peter was born. He contracted hepatitis in Iraq, and was in hospital in South Africa for some time. Back in Cairo, he was recruited for special operations in Yugoslavia. Learning Serbo-Croat, and then parachuting on to the island of Vis, he helped partisans build an airfield and gun batteries to defend it.
In peacetime he rejoined the family firm, and he and Eve had a second child, Jenny, in 1946.
Anthony’s health deteriorated, and he died aged 41 in 1949. The family went to live with Eve’s mother, and Eve died in 1958. Peter and Jenny were then looked after by their much-loved grandmother, who lived to the age of 94.
Peter donated his parents’ wedding salver to the museum, coincidentally in the same week that Mary donated hers.
One of the signatures on the Burrows wedding salver is Neil Campbell…