Alfred Sutton
he was a grocers assistant upon his enlistment.
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Alfred Sutton was born on 15th June 1893 at Nottingham, he was the son of Benjamin Sutton a midland railway carter and the late Caroline Sutton née Shaw of Ekowe Street, Basford, Nottingham.
His father Benjamin was born in 1868 at Over Cambridgeshire, his mother Caroline Shaw was born in 1868 at Over, Cambridgeshire, she died in 1903 at Nottingham, she was aged 35 yrs, they were married in 1890 at Basford, Notinghamshire, they went on to have 4 children, Benjamin b1890, Alfred b1894, Frank b1897 and Harold b1900.
Following his mothers death his father Benjamin emigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1903. he went on to marry Alice Edmeades (Born 1872) on 6th January 1906 at Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, they had 2 further children, Joseph born 1906 and Annie Alice Sutton born 1909
His father eventually returned to England and died in Nottingham in 1937 at Cambridge, he was aged 69 yrs old.
In the 1911 census Alfred Sutton is 17 yrs of age and is a grocers assistant, he is single, he is living at 84 St Peters Street, Radford, Nottingham, he is boarding with Elizabeth Brown 71 yrs a widow and her daughter Elizabeth Francis Mary Brown 34 yrs single, a corn dealer
Private Alfred Sutton enlisted at Derby on 31st August 1914, he was 21 yrs and 77 days old, he was a grocers assistant, he was posted to the 2/6th battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment, he landed in France on 18th March 1915. He was reported missing in action on 21st May 1918, he had in fact been taken as a prisoner of war. He was to die on 11th June 1918 in hospital Hamburgh, Germany, he is buried at Hamburgh Cemetery, Germany.
research and information Peter Gillings
Photo of Alfred Sutton
Hamburg Cemetery, Germany