In Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 18390 Corporal William Edward Betton serving with the 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry who died 01/06/1917.

The son of William and Celia Betton, of Ferryhill, Co. Durham.

In Duncombe Cemetery Ferryhill is the family headstone of William and Celia Betton which includes:-

In
loving memory of
William Ed.
beloved son of the above
killed at Ypres May 31st 1917
aged 22 years

His is the face we loved so well
A mother’s only son
Buried in a soldier’s grave
His duty he hath done

William Edward Betton is remembered at Ferryhill on F38.02 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page  138.