Private Thomas Burton

Army Number: 31427

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Westwood, Nottinghamshire. Son of Edgar and Jane Burton, of New Westwood. He was employed as a sanitary pipe maker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, at age 28, during the attack near Beaumont Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Somme. 

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Thomas Burton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Jacksdale War Memorial, Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Westwood, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Lance Corporal Charles Burton, 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.