Private Charles Dalton

Army Number: 266685 formerly 5141

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Lenton, Nottingham. Son of Henry and Emma Dalton, of 25, Midland Avenue, Lenton, Nottingham. Attended High Pavement School, Nottingham and was a lithographic artist prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action on 1st July 1916, aged 25, in the attack at Gommecourt, France on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Bienvillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 7. Row D. Grave 10.

Private Charles Dalton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lenton War Memorial, Lenton, Nottingham.
High Pavement School Roll of Honour (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham.
Thomas Foreman Employees War Memorial, St. John the Baptist Church, Carrington, Nottingham.
Lenton Conservatice Clucb War Memorial, Lenton Liberal Club, Lenton, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.