Lance Corporal George Burgess Buswell

Lance Corporal George Burgess Buswell

Army Number: 3527

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of John G. Buswell, of 5 Milner Road, Sherwood, Nottingham. He was a butcher prior to enlisting on 9th November 1914 at Nottingham. He went to France on 28th June 1915 and was appointed Lance Corporal on 1st February 1916. He was killed in action, 10th March 1916, whilst serving in the line near Acq, France.

Buried : Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. Plot 15, Row K, Grave 5

Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France.
Lance Corporal George Burgess Buswell grave

Lance Corporal Buswell is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Sergeant John Burgess Buswell, 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.