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.

Sailly-Sur-La-Lys Canadian Cemetery, France.

Private Lesley John Burton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Thomas’s Church War Memorial, Somercotes, Derbyshire.