Private Percival Charles Colton

Army Number : 23089

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

Born at Nottingham and lived at 4, New Street, Carrington, Nottingham. Son of Arthur and Harriet Colton, of Carrington, Nottingham; Husband of Mrs. Ethel M. Allerton (formerly Colton), of 71, Constance Street, New Basford, Nottingham. He was a brass bobbin winder in a lace factory prior to enlisting at Nottingham. Served in Gallipoli during 1915, and was killed in action, 26th September 1916, aged 26, in the attack on the German positions near Thiepval, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried : Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, France. Plot 9. Row F. Grave 17.

Private Percival Charles Colton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
St. Augustine’s Church War Memorial, St Leodegarius Church, Basford, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.