Private Charles Oliver Buxton

Army Number: 306326

Battalion: 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire and lived at Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Louisa Buxton, of Chesterfield. Husband of Mary Ann Duffel, Buxton, of 56, Newcastle Street, Huthwaite. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He was killed in action, 27th April 1917, in the attack at Hargicourt, France. 

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

Private Charles Oliver Buxton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Huthwaite Cemetery War Memorial, Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Herbert Buxton, 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.