Name
Henry Patrick Claude Burton
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/07/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, Repton School War Memorial, Derbyshire,
Pre War
Henry Patrick Claude Burton was born in 1893 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of Claude Edward Cole Hamilton Burton and Katherine Grace Burton and one of six children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 46 Edwardes Square, Kensington, London where his father was the editor of a daily newspaper.
In 1911 Henry was a 17 year old boarder at Repton School, Burton on Trent, Derbyshire, having been educated there since 1907. Meanwhile, his parents had moved to Trentham, Woking Village, Surrey.
The family later lived at St Keyne, Berkhamsted, Herts.
Wartime Service
Henry served as 2nd Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment and went to France on 13 May 1915. He joined the Battalion for duty at Rosenhil near Reninge. In February 1916 he took command of C Company temporarily from Captain Nottidge.
He was killed in action on 27 July 1916 during the Battle of Delville Wood at Longueval. Henry was one of four officers killed during the attack. Fifty five other ranks from the 1st Battalion also died on that day.
Henry has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received pay owing of £126 10s and was granted probate of his estate on 28 February 1917 with effects of £206 9s 7d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/1stbtn/
