Private George Gersham Buxton

Army Number: 12132

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Sutton-in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Walter and Laura Buxton, of Newcastle Arms, 19 Kings Street, Sutton in Ashfield. He was a cotton machine hosiery hand prior to enlisting at Derby. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Private George Gersham Buxton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Sutton-in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire..
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.