Blackmore Area Local History

David Sutton

War Memorial: Place and inscription
Blackmore War Memorial: Pte. D. Sutton R.Fus.

Rank:
Private

Regiment:
Royal Fusiliers. 11^th Battalion. Service No: 87384. [CWGC]

Service Details:
Medal card: R Fus Pte GS/87384 Sutton, David Victory/British TP/104 B35 p. 4208 [Ancestry]

Personal and family information:
Son of John Joseph Sutton. [CWGC]
Father John Joseph Sutton, mother Elizabeth Scrivener, both born Blackmore ca 1855 [C1881].  Married Q3 1877 St Olave, Southwark.  [FreeBMD].

David Sutton was born Edmonton Q4 1894.  [Free BMD]  Edmonton was in Middlesex.  Baptism Registers for the parishes within Edmonton are in the London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road. EC1R 0HB. 

Elizabeth Sutton died Q3 1910 Edmonton. [Free BMD]

1881 Census gives John J and Elizabeth Sutton (both born Blackmore) living in Southwark, St Olave. 

1901 Census.  Living Middlesex; with John Joseph age 47 & Elizabeth age 47, also brother Ted Sutton, age 14

1911 Census. David Sutton is living at 66 Seaford Rd Tottenham, a shop boy, age 16; father John Joseph is widower, occupation, carman

Burial Register:
 “John Joseph Sutton. The Bridge, Blackmore. August 6 1932. 77 Years.” (almost certainly the father of deceased).  [Source: Original register in church safe]

Date of Death:
24^th October 1918

Age:
24

Where died:
Killed in action, France. [CWGC]

Place of Burial or Commemoration:
Buried at Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-Au-Bois.  [CWGC]

List of Sources:
Ancestry, Church Safe with grateful acknowledgment to the Vicar and churchwardens, Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Free BMD.