Name
Frederick Joseph Burton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
65864
Suffolk Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FELIXSTOWE NEW CEMETERY
J. 24.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Much Hadham Village Memorial
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Much Hadham
Stone Bench Plaque, Much Hadham
Congregational Church Memorial, Hadham Cross
Pre War
Born in 1890 in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Muncey) Burton. He was living in Much Hadham in 1901 and in 1911 when he was a harness maker with his father. Joseph was a harness maker and had his exemption from enlisting withdrawn in July 1918 and, so he was enlisted in Bedford.
Wartime Service
He died three months after enlisting and while still in England with the Suffolk Regiment and died of pneumonia in Felixstowe. He is buried in Felixstowe, but he is also named on a family grave in St Andrew's Churchyard, Much Hadham. It is not known if his body lies there or at the Felixstowe Cemetery.
Additional Information
SDITGW records his birthplace as Natal, South Africa.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum)
