Private Bertie McCubbin

Army Number : 31821
Battalion : 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Son of Emily McCubbin. Prior to the war he worked at the locomotive sheds at Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire and enlisted in October 1915. He was executed on the 30th July 1916 for refusing to carry out an order.
Buried: Browns Road Military Cemetery, Festubert, France. Plot V. Row B, Grave 16.

Private Bertie McCubbin is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Sutton-in-Ashfield War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

