Corporal William Charles Samuel Sutton, Suffolk Regiment 1917

200822 Corporal
W.C.S. SUTTON
Suffolk Regiment
21st June 1917 Age 26
Until the Resurrection morn
Corporal WILLIAM CHARLES SAMUEL SUTTON
Service Number:……………. 200822
Regiment & Unit:……………Suffolk Regiment
……………………………….4th Bn.
Date of Death:……………….21 June 1917
Age:………………………… 26 years old
Buried or commemorated at IPSWICH OLD CEMETERY
Grave:………………………..BA. I. 65.
Additional Info: Son of William and Mary Anne Sutton; husband of Francis Violet Sutton, of 38, Great Whip St., Ipswich. Born at Ipswich.
Source: www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/...
Soldiers Died in the Great War, an HMSO publication from the 1920’s, records that 200822 Corporal William Charles Samuel Sutton Died of Wounds on the 21st June 1917 while serving in France & Flanders with the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. He was formerly service number 3097
He enlisted at Ipswich. No place of birth or residence is shown.

The Medal Index Card for 200822 Corporal William Charles Samuel Sutton, Suffolk Regiment
is held at the National Archive under reference WO 372/19/120983.
He was originally service number 3097 when he first went overseas.
Other than administrative references there is no additional information on the card.
Source: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5453305
He qualified for the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. This combination of medals would indicate he did not serve in a Theatre of War until on or after the 1st January 1916.

His Service Records do not appear to have survived the incendiary attack during the Blitz on the Warehouse where all the Other Ranks Army Service Records were stored.

The death of a William Charles Samuel Sutton, aged 26, was registered in the Brtstol district of Gloucestershire in the April to June, (Q2) quarter, of 1917.

The Ipswich War Memorial website has a picture of him along with a newspaper report on his funeral as well as showing genealogical details and that he died of wounds at the Bristol Military Hospital. www.ipswichwarmemorial.co.uk/william-charles-samuel-sutton/
Several regional newspapers available via the British Newspaper Archive, (also available via FindMyPast), dated 25th – 30th May 1917 have casualty lists that include a 200822 Acting Corporal W.C.S. Sutton who has next of kin living at Ipswich. Subscription access would be needed to find out if the fuller list gives sufficient details to estimate when he might have incurred his fatal wounds.
Unfortunately the Official Casualty List reporting system was in transition at this stage. The full list had been reorted in The Times, but by May 1917 that source had stopped reporting “Other Ranks wounded”. A new weekly report was published by the War Office later in the summer that would be inclusive of wounded. Sadly by that time William had died of his wounds.

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