Private Frank Herbert Alton

Army Number: 20548

Battalion: 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Husband of Lily Alton, 118, Speedwell Terrace, Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Staveley on 7th December 1914. He went to France on 14th July 1915 and suffered from Trench Foot on 18th December 1915 and was sent from 51st Field Ambulance to No. 12 Casualty Clearing Station at Hazebrouck, Belgium, 28th December 1915. He rejoined his battalion on 8th January 1916 and was killed in action, 14th February 1916, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41

Private Frank Herbert Alton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:
Staveley War Memorial, Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.