Sergeant-Major William Sutton
Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 14 October 1900
Number: 11112
Company: 54th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion - reinforcement draft
ENLISTMENT
Date: 15 February 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 28 years
Trade of calling: Mechanic
Place of birth: In the Parish of __, near the Town of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex
Family: Father William Sutton, Westminster, Middlesex; wife Mary Sutton (nee Shaw), 12 Old Park Place, Belfast. Two children - William (born 1895) and Martha (born 1897, died 1900).
Previous military service: 15th Hussars, Middlesex Volunteers, Remount Staffordshire Royal Horse Artillery.
Description: Height 5' 7 1/4". Complexion fresh, eyes blue, hair brown.
Religion: Church of England
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 14 April 1900
Campaigns: South Africa 1899-1901
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps.
DEATH
Date: 30 September 1900
Place: Kroonstad
Cause: Enteric fever
Commemorated: Kroonstad Cemetery and Memorial
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