Private Charles Ernest Chesterton

Army Number : 3349

Battalion : 3/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of William and Elizabeth Chesterton, of 9 North Street, Mutton Hill, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Hannah Chesterton, of 244 Radford Road, Radford, Nottingham. He enlisted on 4th November 1914 at Belper, Derbyshire. He died, 18th April 1916, aged 22, at his home of cerebro meningitis whilst absent withour leave from his battalion.

Buried : Kingsway Old Cemetery, United Kingdom. Plot A Row V. Grave 1251.

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.