Private Herbert Buxton

Army Number: 6292

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Eckington, Derbyshire. Son of Arthur and Mary Buxton, of 21 High Street, Mossborough, Yorkshire. He enlisted on 26th August 1914 at Eckington and went to France on 11th December 1914 and was killed in action on 5th July 1916 in the attack on the German positions at La Boisselle, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval, France. Plot 9. Row E. Grave 40.

London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval, France.

Private Herbert Buxton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Marks Church War Memorial, Mossborough, Yorkshire. 

His brother Private Ernest Buxton, 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.