Regimental Number: M55649
Rank: Corporal
Jim, born on September 23, 1905, was the oldest son of Mary and John Pollock of Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland. He had four siblings, John, Catherine, Alex and Mae. John Pollock Sr. passed away and Mary subsequently married Robert Burrows who was a widower with four children; Thomas, Alexander, William and Hector. Robert and Mary had four children together; George, David, Leslie and Helen. In 1927, the Burrows family with the exception of Jim, decided to immigrate to Canada. Robert and Mary purchased farmland in the Glen Leslie area.
Jim decided to join the family at Glen Leslie and arrived in 1928. He worked for various farmers and also worked in the coal mines in Drumheller, Carbon Valley and the Spring Creek Coal Mine south of Grande Prairie. He enlisted with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps in Calgary on July 24, 1940 where he served as a Corporal during WWII. In 1940, he was transferred to Victoria, BC where he was an ambulance driver with the R.C.A. Medical Corp. Later he was transferred to the R.C.E. as a fire truck driver. Jim was discharged in 1947 and settled in Victoria, BC with his wife, Evelyn (nee Isberg) and five children, where he was employed as a forklift operator. Jim passed away in Victoria, BC in August 1991.
Contributed by Wanda Zenner
Sources:
Information and pictures provided by Helen (Burrows) Horrigan who gathered the military information from her siblings.
Smoky River to Grande Prairie pg. 422