Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Frederick Borrow a post master, born 1863 in Aldingbourne, Sussex and his wife Ethel, born 1870 in Southampton, Hants. Cyril Ernest was born in 1898 in Petworth, Sussex, he had one sibling, a brother Frederick Guy Lomer, born 1895 in Emsworth, Hants., in March 1901 the family home was at Market Square, Petworth, Sussex. In April 1911 Cyril was a scholar and was residing in the family home at 101, Northampton Road, Market Harborough, Leics., together with his father a post master, his mother and brother Frederick. Cyril's elder bother Frederick Guy Lomer died from wounds received in action.