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Remembering an Officer of the Great War: Second-Lieutenant Howard Burton

Remembering an Officer of the Great War: Second-Lieutenant Howard Burton

By Mark Simner | 24 October 2018

Howard Burton was born in Walsall, Staffordshire in 1896, the son of William and Annie Burton. At the time of the 1901 census he was living with his family at 29 Rutter Street in Walsall, but by the time hostilities broke out in 1914 he was recorded as residing at 29 Emery Street. On the…

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