Private Albert Edward Baugh

Army Number: 15545

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born on the 7th August 1891 and lived at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Jane Ellen Baugh, of 13, Bishop’s Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Husband of Beatrice Baugh. He was coal prior to enlisting at Mansfield. He went to France on 27th August 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Albert Edward Baugh is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Sutton War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham. 

His brother Private Squire James Baugh, 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War on the same day.