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Old 09-02-15, 07:05
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Default (45) Vernon George Burtenshaw DM2/163148 Driver, Royal Army Service Corps

45th of the Old Boys of St Wilfrid's school, Haywards Heath to lose his life in WW1.

Vernon George Burtenshaw DM2/163148 Driver, Royal Army Service Corps 403rd Mechanical Transport attached to 11th Anzac Corps Heavy Artillery.

Vernon was born 1887 in Cuckfield, Sussex, to William and Ellen Burtenshaw. His father had been an agricultural labourer and a bill poster, they lived in New England Road in neighbouring Haywards Heath in 1901, but by 1911 his father was a furniture dealer living in Lancing, while Vernon was lodging in Hove and working as a gardener’s vanman.

In April 1911 Vernon married Esther Mantilla King. He enlisted on 7 Dec 1915 aged 29 years 120 days, his occupation was coachman and he was taken on as a driver at 1s 2d per day. He died of wounds in Belgium on 1st Aug 1917 and is buried at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Belgium grave I. B. 17. He left a wife and 5 children.

From the Mid Sussex Times:
MID SUSSEX TIMES 11 SEP 1917
DEATH OF DRIVER V G BURTENSHAW
Mr & Mrs W Burtenshaw formerly of New England Road, and now of Glendale, Penhill Road, Lancing, have received the sad news that their younger son, Driver Vernon George Burtenshaw ASC (Motor transport), attached to the battery of the RGA, has died of wounds received in action in France. He was 30 years of age, and has left a widow and five children to mourn their loss.


His widow was sent his effects of £6 1s 4d on 23rd November 1917 and a War Gratuity of £6 on 23 October 1919.
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