Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Memorial Plaque to Private B. Sutton, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916

Memorial Plaque (Bert Sutton) good very fine £80-120

Bert Sutton (a unique name on the C.W.G.C. Roll of Honour) was born in Wheatley, Doncaster, Yorkshire, in 1897, one of thirteen children of John and Hannah Sutton, and was educated at Wheatley School. After a spell working as a runner for the Doncaster Gazette, he was employed as a rope lad at Bentley Colliery, Doncaster, and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Pontefract, Yorkshire. He served during the Great War with “A” Battery, 164th Brigade, on the Western Front from 29 December 1915, and was killed in action on 1 July 1916, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He is buried in Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Sold together with various copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.