Lance Corporal Clifford Banton

Army Number: 201018 (formerly 3407)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Church Gresley, Derbyshire and lived at Donisthorpe, Leicestershire. Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Banton, of Mascotte House, Moira Road, Donisthorpe. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Church Gresley. He went to France on 25th June 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Lance Corporal Clifford Banton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Church Gresley War Memorial, Church Gresley, Derbyshire.
Donisthorpe Memorial Gate War Memorial, Donisthorpe, Leicestershire.
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Donisthorpe, Leicestershire.
Donisthorpe Colliery War Memorial, Moira, Leicestershire.