BAUGH S. J.
Squire James Baugh
Private 16363
11th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Squire James Baugh died on Saturday 1st July 1916, age 32, and was 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 c1884 at Cannock in Staffordshire, the eldest 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.
Squire James Baugh was the eldest brother of Albert Edward Baugh, who is also listed on the War Memorial.
Notts Free Press - 8th December 1916
Private S. J. Baugh - After being reported as missing since July 1st, official news has now been received of the death of Private Squire James Baugh, 6 Bishop Street, Sutton, on that date. Previous to his enlistment in the Sherwood Foresters, in September 1914. Private Baugh worked at the New Hucknall Colliery. He had been in France 14 months prior to the date of his death. Thirty-two years of age, he leaves a wife and two children. Additional sadness is lent to the event by reason of the fact that deceased's brother - Private Albert Edward Baugh - was killed on the same date, and, it is supposed, at the same place. A service in memory of the latter was conducted by Mr G. Reed at the Hillocks Primitive Methodist Chapel on Sunday evening. Both were sons of the late Mr W. Baugh, checkweighman.
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 8th December 1916
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Baugh, Private Squire James, Sherwood Foresters.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
BAUGH Squire. Born Hednesford, Staffs., Enlisted Mansfield, Notts (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield), 11th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Private 16363, Killed in action, France & Flanders, 1st July 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes
