Private William Henry Bustin

Army Number: 235061 (formerly 3729 Leicestershire Regiment)

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: M.M. (Military Medal)

Born in Warwick, Warwickshire and lived at Leicester. Son of Charles and Jane Bustin, of 210, Curzon Street, Leicester; Husband of Elizabeth Emma Bustin, of 123, Halkin Street, Melton Road, Leicester. He was a tram conductor prior to enlisting on 1st December 1914 at Leicester. He went to France on 15th May 1917 and was transferred to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 10th June 1917. He was awarded the Military Medal, London Gazette Date 14th, January 1918. For gallantry during the attack at Bulgar Wood on 20/21st September 1917. Killed in action on 21st March 1918, aged 37 during a German bombardment by high explosive and heavy gas at Sorrel Le Grand near Longuval, France, on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 to 54.

Private William Henry Bustin is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
City of Leicester Tramways and Electricity Department War Memorial, Leicester

His brother Lance Corporal Sidney Bustin, 1/4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.