Private Francis Gratton

Private Francis Gratton

Army Number: 15104

Battalion: 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Son of Francis and Hannah Gratton, of New Road, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire. He was a limestone quarryman prior to enlisting at Derby. He went to France on 29th August 1915 and was killed in action, on 17th June 1916 aged 33, by German gas shelling of the trenches near Neuve-Eglise, Belgium.

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Derbyshire Courier 1st July 1916

Buried: Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1. Row F. Grave 10.

Private Francis Gratton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Holy Trinity Church War Memorial, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire.