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CWGC has this: BURTON, CLAUDE FITZGERALD Rank: Lance Sergeant Service No: 1916 Date of Death: 18/07/1916 Age: 21 Regiment/Service: South African Infantry "D" Coy. 1st Regt. Panel Reference Pier and Face 4 C. Memorial THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of the late Capt. George W. Burton, of Madras, Southern India, and of Naomi Elizabeth Burton (now Mrs. O'Connor), of "Calpe", Blackrock, Dublin. Educated at Sea Point School, Cape Town. On staff of National Bank of South Africa, Ltd. Also served in German South West Africa with Cape Peninsula Rifles and in Egypt.

UK Commonwealth War Graves database gives his full name as Claude Fitzgerald Sommerville Burton. Armorial Families of England shows that his grandfather was Henry Burton, Gentleman, b. 1817 ; d. 1894 who married Catherine Barnes {d. 1890), d. of Col. W. Somerville Mitchell, I.S.C. His father was George William Burton, Gentleman, b. 1856 ; m. 1894, Naomi, eld. d. of Richard Ward, of Howden, Yorkshire. 2 younger brothers: Cyril Leeds McHutcheon Burton, Gentleman, b. 1897 and Alfred Vere Ansted Burton, Gentleman, b. 1900. Res. —

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The style of that cap is new to me.

Willem It was called a soft cap and didn't have the wired rim inside that keeps the caps rigid in normal circumstances.

Lee Crosbie Thank you!

This is the 1915 pattern issue trench cap. The soldiers nicknamed them 'Gor Blimey' caps. There is a good picture of the design - one made in blue for distribution to PoWs in Germany - at www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30093164 PS/1858 Private James Burton was the son of Frances Campbell Burton, of 66 Leam Terrace, Leamington, Warwickshire, and the late George Burton. CWGC. The PS prefix indicated that 16th Battalion Middlesex was, originally at least, a 'Public Schools' battalion. 16th(Service) Battalion (Public Schools) was originally sent to France with 100th Brigade in 33rd Division. They landed at Boulogne on 17th November 1915, but in late February 1916 were transferred to a support role with GHQ Troops, before landing with 86th Brigade in 29th Division on 25th April 1916 for the Battle of the Somme. There is some, believed genuine but somewhat indistinct, film footage of 16th Battalion Middlesex attacking the 'Hawthorn Ridge' on 1st July 1916 at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm1eY7X343o //

Gor Blimey! Probably uttered, because they look far from being martial.

Commomwealth War Graves Commission lists the following BURTON, THOMAS HAROLD Rank:Gunner Service No:L/1649 Date of Death:25/03/1918 Age:22 Regiment/Service:Royal Field Artillery "C" Coy. 178th Bde. Grave ReferenceI. C. 25. Cemetery BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY, BAILLEULVAL Additional Information: Native of Nottingham. Only son of Thomas and Fanny Burton, of 50, Ramsey St., Scarborough. they can found www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/18615/BURTON,%2... A photo of the his grave can be found here twgpp.org/information.php?id=2430605

My great uncle James Scott of the Lincolnshire regiment was killed 23/4th March 1918 in German Assault, at Arras. Would this been the same assault as Gunner Burton. Thank You.

This photograph was possibly taken at the studio of Alan Rufford at 19 Market Street, Nottingham. 178 (East Ham) Howitzer Brigade RFA went to France in June 1916 (commanded by Lt Col D H Gill [later Col, CMG DSO]) as part of the Divisional Artillery of 40th Division (119, 120 and 121 Infantry Brigades). 178 Brigade supported 20th Division at Cambrai in 1917. On 21st March 1918, back with 40th Division in Fifth Army, 'C' Battery of 178th Brigade RFA (also referred to as CLXXVIII Brigade) was amongst the artillery positions subjected to intense counter-battery fire on the first day of the 'Ludendorff Offensive'. Over a million shells were fired by the Germans in the first 5 hours of this attack, chiefly targeting British artillery batteries which had been accurately located by aerial reconnaissance and had been static for too long on what was considered a quiet sector of the front. The 178th Brigade war diaries June 1916 to March 1919 are at the National Archive, WO95/2598. A Mr Dave Steward at 'The Great War Forum' has a particular interest in 178th Brigade RFA.//

The 1911 Census record shows him living at 41 Ewart Road, Nottingham which is still standing today. He was living there with his mother and father and 23 year old sister Fanny. He was 15 and an office boy at the time of the census.

Nurselead 'Nurselead' - Your Great Uncle, 38739 Pte James Scott of the Lincolnshire Regiment could have been serving in one of a number of battalions, including 1st (at Poziers), 2nd (at Bethancourt), 5th (withdrawing from St Quentin), and 7th (near Arras). The location of his memorial at Arras suggests he was in 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, but that is in no way definitive. This German attack, launched on 21st March 1918, called Operation Michael, threw 21 divisions, supported by intense artillery concentrations, focused on St Quentin, across an Allied front of 23 miles. This was the German 'Spring Offensive' aimed at achieving a decisive victory before the American forces could arrive in sufficient numbers to defeat the progressively weakening Central Powers.//