Newspaper clipping, Edward P. Barrows Captain Overseas, 1944

Left:  Capt. Edward P. Barrows
Right:  Wallace H. Barrows

Special Dispatch to Sunday Telegram

Newport, Jan. 29--Word has been received of the promotion of Edward P. Barrows, son of former Governor and Mrs. Lewis O. Barrows, to rank of captain in Dec. 1943.

Captain Barrows was graduated from Newport High School and the University of Maine in 1942 where he had been an outstanding athlete.  He was elected president of his class each of his four years at U. of M., and a member of the R.O.T.C.

Following his graduation, he was sent to Officers' Training School at Fort Benning, Ga., and from there given an assignment at Fort Sam Huston, Texas, with the rank of second lieutenant.  He was later sent to Comp McCoy, Wis., where, after training, he served as an instructor of ski troopers and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant.  He was sent overseas in the early Winter as acting commander of his company.

Captain Barrows married Miss Jane Murphy of Augusta in June, 1941, and they have announced the birth of a son, Edward P. Burrows, 2nd, on Jan. 17 at the Augusta General hospital in Augusta.

About the same time that word was received of the promotion of Captain Barrows, words was received of the safe arrival of his younger brother, Wallace H. Barrows, in La Lima, Honduras, Central America, where he will be employed as an assistant foreman on one of the large banana plantations of the United Fruit Company in La Lima.

"Bud," as Newport young people all called him during his school days here, was formerly attached to the Signal Corps, photo division, of the First Service Command stationed in Boston, and received his medical discharge last November.  He served in this capacity for nearly a year.  A graduate of the New Hampton School for Boys, New Hampton, N.H., he was taking a post graduate course when he left the armed forces.  He is a member of Newport Post, American Legion.

They are grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Barrows, Newport.

(no date or newspaper name on clipping, assuming Sunday Telegram, Jan. 1944)