Private Harold Colton

Army Number: 12617

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Eliza Colton. He was an errand boy prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He died, 26th November 1915, aged 19, of wounds, received in Gallipoli

Buried: Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot D. Row 9. Grave 6.

Private Harold Colton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.