Private Owen Stanley Burchell

Army Number: 72688 (formerly 059763 Royal Army Service Corps)

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He  Lived at 25 Godstone Road, Whyteleafe, Surrey. Son of George and Amelia Burchell, of Buthers Farm, Saffron Walden; Husband of Millie Burchell, of 5, Pains Hill, Limpsfield, Surrey. He was a car man prior to enlisting on 8th February 1915 at Woolwich.  He went to France on 6th May 1916 and was transferred to the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 15th October 1917 and was killed in action, 26th March 1918, age 29, whilst the battalion was withdrawing under a heavy German attack towards Rosieres, France. 

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 to 54.

Private Owen Stanley Burchell is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Luke’s Church War Memorial, Whyteleafe, Surrey.