Lance Corporal Ernest Charlton

Army Number : 19526

Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Richard and Elizabeth Charlton, of 16, Collison Street, Nottingham. He was a groom and driver for a pork butcher prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 18th August 1915 and was killed in action,14th April 1917, whilst the battalion was advancing, in an effort to straighten the salient near Gouzeaucourt, France.

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

Second Lieutenant William Miles Smalley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Mapperley War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Central Methodist Mission (Albert Hall) War Memorial.
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham.
High Pavement Grammar School Roll of Honour, (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.