Private Alfred Burton

Army Number: 9438

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of William and Elizabeth Burton, of 200 High Street, Old Basford, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 8th September 1914, He was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Private Alfred Burton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Leodegarius Church War Memorial, Old Basford, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.