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Pte. R. Burton
British Army 6th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
(d.19th Feb 1917)
Pte. R. Burton served with the South Lancashire Regiment 6th Battalion. He was executed for sleeping at his post on 19th February 1917 and is commerated on the Basra Memorial in Iraq.
The mass pardon of 306 British Empire soldiers executed for certain offences during the Great War was enacted in section 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, which came into effect on royal assent on 8th November 2006.