Private Harold Brunton

Army Number: 13465

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Dronfield, Derbyshire. Son of John William Brunton, of “The Moorlands”, Dronfield. He was a draughtsman prior to enlisting on 24th June 1914 at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He served in Gallipoli with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment from the 1st July 1915 until the 2nd January 1916. He went to France on 17th May 1916 and was posted to the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 25, during the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, 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.

Private Harold Brunton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Dronfield Library Garden War Memorial, Dronfield, Derbyshire.