Private John Cecil Belton

Army Number: 306709

Battalion: 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Newark, Nottinghamshire. Son of John Cook Belton and Mary Jane Belton, of 2, Bargate, Newark. He was a hairdresser and tobacconist prior to enlisting at Newark.  He served in Dublin during the Irish rebellion in 1916 and suffered a gunshot wound to his nose. He went to France on recovery and died, 27th April 1917, aged 22,  at 55 Casualty Clearing Station, La Chapelle, France of gunshot wounds to his abdomen sustained on the same day. 

Buried La Chapelette British and Indian Cemetery, Peronne, France. Plot 2. Row A. Grave 10.

Private John Cecil Belton is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church Borough of Newark, Roll of Honour, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church Parishioners Church War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Christ Church War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Newark Cemetery War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham