Lance Corporal Samuel Barton

Army Number : 70859 (formerly 26910 South Staffordshire Regiment)

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Holbeach, Lincolnshire and lived at Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Barton, of Holbeach; Husband of Marjorie Barton, of School House, Sutton St. Edmund, Wisbeach, Lincolnshire. He was a Schoolmaster at Sutton St. Edmund, prior to enlisting at Spalding, Lincolnshire. He was killed in action, 24th November 1916, aged 31, during a German artillery barrage, whilst on a working party to the north of Beaumont Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried Hamel Military Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, France. Plot 2. Row E. Grave 3.

Hamel Military Cemetery, Beaumont Hamel, France.

Lance Corporal Samuel Barton grave — Photograph of grave kindly supplied by Roger Frankish

Lance Corporal Samuel Barton is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
All Saints Church War Memorial, Holbeach, Lincolnshire.
Sutton St. Edmund, War Memorial, Sutton St. Edmund, Lincolnshire.