Sutton H L/Cpl 1757 Surrey Yeomanry
SUTTON, HUBERT, L.-Corpl., No. 1757, A Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of Oswald Walker Sutton, of 17, Rosebery Avenue, E.C., and 2, Fernwood Avenue, Streatham, S. W., by his wife, Hannah Fletcher, dau. of Alexander Grossmann; b. Clapham, S.W., 25 Oct. 1892; educ. St. John’s, Brixton, and Alleyn’s, Dulwich; was a Commercial Traveller; joined A Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry, Nov. 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war and transferred to C Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry; left England for Egypt, 20 March, 1915; arrived at the Dardanelles 3 Aug. and died on shipboard, 22 Aug. 1915, of enteritis contracted in the Gallipoli trenches; unm. Fond of sport, he was at the same time much interested in literature and was a good writer, and a posthumous work entitled “Fragments of Verse” was published by his parents.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1