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John George Burton
Private 27733
9th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
John George Burton died on Sunday 19th August 1917, Age 25, and was buried in the TYNE COT CEMETERY, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born c1893 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents Matthew John and Lucy Ann Burton. Matthew Burton was a Colliery Shunter, and native of Sutton-in-Ashfield, who married his wife Lucy at Rotherham in 1874. The family moved from Rotherham to Sutton around 1884, and in 1901 were living at 6 Willowbridge, Sutton.
John Burton was also the Husband of Annie E. Burton, of 24 Stoneyford Cottages, Stanton Hill, Notts.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Burton, Private John George, Sherwood Foresters.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
JOHN GEORGE BURTON. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield - Enlisted Mansfield, 9th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 27733, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 19th Aug 1917.
Research by Heather Faulkes and Helen Wilson