Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Lance Sergeant Thomas Highton - North Staffordshire Regiment - Service Number :- 11174 and 39606 died 29/4/1919
buried Retford Road Cemetery Worksop, Bassetlaw District, Nottinghamshire, E
The Commission are ion the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.
Married Winifred Patricia Buchanan in the registry office on the 4th April 1917.
FIND A GRAVE (with bio and photograph)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227351587/thomas-hightonRetford Times 9 May 1919:
The funeral of ex-Sergt Thomas Highton, Park Street, Worksop, took place at the New Cemetery on Friday. The deceased who was 27 years of age, died at Bradwell, where he lived. He enlisted in the Sherwoods in 1911 and went to France with the 2nd Battalion when war broke out. He went through the retreat from Mons, and was wounded in the right shoulder at Armentieres. After a long spell in hospital he was sent to Mesopotamia with the 7th Staffords, but on reaching Bagdad his health broke down and he was eventually discharged in December 1917. Afterwards he worked in the laboratory at Firth's Steel Works. Ex-Sergt Highton stood 6' 3" Military honours were accorded the deceased, a firing party from Clipston firing three volleys over the grave, whilst buglers sounded the "Last Post." The Rev H Gray officiated.
