Private Albert Burton

Army Number: 20854

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

Born at Carlton-on Trent, Nottinghamshire and lived at Shelford, Nottinghamshire. Son of Joseph and Rose Annie Burton, of Shelford. Husband of Sarah A Burton. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 11th October 1915. Died of wounds received at Ovillers, France, 1st July 1916, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme at No. 38 Casualty Clearing Station, Heilly, France.

Buried: Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe, France. Plot I, Row B, Grave 7.

Private Albert Burton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Shelford Village Green War Memorial, Shelford, Nottinghamshire.
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Shelford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.