Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Madeline Sutton (747)

16/08/1896 –14/05/1936

Wife of Colonel William Henry Arthur Douglas Sutton

Relatives

Colonel William Henry Arthur Douglas Sutton OBE — husband

• Simon Armstrong

Madeleine Ella Sutton (née Gibbs) was born on 16th August 1896 in Stoke Newington, London, the daughter of Walter Harold Gibbs.

She married William Henry Arthur Douglas Sutton (Bill) on 28th August 1920 and they had two children: Peter Douglas Sutton and Madeleine Anne Sutton.  Madeleine Anne Sutton maintained her links with Berkhampstead as she married Wilfred Paul Snell there in 1948.

Madeleine Ella died on 14th May 1936 and is buried with her husband in Rectory Lane Cemetery.

Colonel William Henry Arthur Douglas Sutton OBE

d.27/11/1953

Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps

Relatives

Madeline Sutton (747) — wife

Annie Aubert Sutton (796) — mother

Major-Gen. Alexander Arthur Sutton, KCB — father

• Simon Armstrong

Colonel William Henry Arthur Douglas Sutton OBE RAMC was born on 22nd September 1890 in St Helier, Jersey.  The eldest child of Alexander Arthur and Annie Aubert Sutton.

In the 1911 Census he is shown as living with his parents at Cowper House, Berkhampstead and is described as a medical student.

He qualified as a doctor receiving a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons from Edinburgh.

The London Gazette shows him being appointed a Lieutenant in the RAMC on 5th August 1914.  He was promoted Captain 1st January 1917.

He married Madeleine Ella Gibbs on 28th August 1920. She died in 1936.

He then married Grace Mary Wallis on 2nd October 1948.  She was a senior nurse in the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps.

He was created OBE on 23rd December 1943 when he is described as Colonel (temporary) William Henry Arthur Douglas Sutton (5041), Royal Army Medical Corps (Tunbridge Wells).

He died on 27th Nov 1953 in The Old Cottage, Long Melford, Suffolk and was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhampstead with his first wife.