Private Ernest Buxton

Army Number: 22628

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Mossborough, Yorkshire. Son of Arthur and Mary Buxton, of 21, High Street, Mossborough. Husband of Mary Buxton, of 37, Sherwood Road, Sutton-In Ashfield, Nottingham. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Sutton in Ashfield. He went to Gallipoli on 28th August 1915 and died of wounds, 4th October 1915, aged 35, in Egypt, of wounds received in Gallipoli. 

Buried: Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. Row F. Grave 78.

Private Ernest Buxton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Marks’s Church War Memorial, Mossborough, Yorkshire. 
St. Mary Magdelene Church War Memorial, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. 
Sutton in Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Herbert Buxton, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.