BURTON+J.+R.

Burton, John, Lance Corporal, 11529, 1st Bn, Notts & Derby Regiment Born Allerton (sic), Derby Enlisted Derby Killed in action France and Flanders 11th March 1915

Aged 20 Son of the late John and Annetta Burton Le Touret Memorial, Panel 26 and 27

Derby Daily Express, 31st March 1915

John Burton was born in Allenton, and his parents resided at 122, Havelock Road, Derby. He had been in the Army for three years, before which he worked for Mr. Stone, a wheelwright, of Normanton. According to the newspaper report, John Burton was shot in the head whilst rescuing a comrade during the battle of Lille on 20th October, 1914, however, official sources, as can be seen above, gave his date of death as 11th March 1915 during the battle of Neuve Chapelle.