Private William Burnett

Army Number: 266545 (formerly 4876)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Thomas and Mary Burnett, of 60, Blue Bell Hill, Nottingham. He was a printer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, 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 William Burnett is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Bartholomew’s Church Roll of Honour (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Lance Corporal Alfred William Burnett, 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.