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Pte. William Alfred Burton
British Army 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:121 Lower Cuthbert Street, Gateshead.
(d.6th Sept 1915)
William Burton was born in Scarborough in 1886, the son of Thomas Burton and Mary Ann (nee Wallis). Thomas Burton was a shipyard driller. By 1881 the family had moved to Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne. William married Emily Gertrude Morris in 1910 at Gateshead and in 1911 they were living at 94, Vine Street, Gateshead. They had one child; a son; George William Burton. On the 1911 Census William Alfred's occupation is shown as a stoneman/coal miner.
William enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers, 8th Battalion at Newcastle upon Tyne and disembarked in the Balkan Theatre, on the 7th of October 1915. William Alfred Burton died of wounds at Alexandria, Egypt on 6th of September 1915. He is buried in the Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria. Emily Burton never remarried after William's death and continued to live in Gateshead with her brother, Thomas Morris, and her son George William Burton.
William Alfred is remembered by his grand-daughter Audrey Burton and her siblings. Rest in peace grand-dad, you gave your life for us. Thank you.
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