Sergeant John Burgess Buswell

Army Number: 27113

Battalion : 17th 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 Lace Designer prior to enlisting on 3rd June 1915 at Nottingham. He was appointed Lance Corporal 26th June 1915 and promoted Corporal 27th July 1915. He went to France on 6th March 1916, was promoted to Sergeant on 17th August 1916 and was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, 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.

Sergeant Buswell is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
High Pavement Boys Grammar School Roll of Honour (Nottingham Archives), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Lance Corporal George Burgess Buswell, 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.