BAUGH A. E.
Albert Edward Baugh
Private 15545
11th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Albert Edward Baugh died on Saturday 1st July 1916, aged 24 years, and is remembered on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. He died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, and was one of ten local men killed on the same day.
He was born on 7th August 1891 on Outram Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was the son of William and Jane Ellen Baugh, who were both natives of Shropshire. William Baugh was a Colliery Check Weighman. In 1901 they were living at 34 Chatsworth Street, Sutton.
Albert Edward Baugh was the younger brother of Squire James Baugh, who is also listed on the War Memorial.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Baugh, Corporal Albert Edward, Sherwood Foresters.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
BAUGH Albert Edward, born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts., Enlisted Mansfield, Notts (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield), 11th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Private 15545, Killed in action, France & Flanders, 1st July 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes
