Private Lesley John Burton
Army Number: 18577
Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at Somercotes, Derbyshire. Son of Henry and Elizabeth Burton, of Quarry Road, Somercotes. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 9th February 1915 and died of wounds, on 12th January 1916.
Buried: Sailly-Sur-La-Lys Canadian Cemetery, France. Plot 1, Row C, Grave 51.
Private Lesley John Burton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Thomas’s Church War Memorial, Somercotes, Derbyshire.