Sergeant Alfred Ernest Burgin

Army Number : 14432

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Radford, Nottingham. Son of Thomas Chadburn Burgin and Martha Burgin, of Swanwick, Derbyshire; Husband of Jane Burgin, of 182, Uttoxeter Old Road, Derby. He was a labourer for the carriage and wagon department on the Midland Railway prior to enlisting at Derby. He went to France 14th July 1915 and died of wounds, 23rd April 1917, age 35, at No. 13 General Hospital Boulogne, France.

Buried : Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France. Plot 4. Row C. Grave 22.

Sergeant Burgin is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Derby.
Midland Railway War Memorial, Derby Railway Station, Derby.