Private Arthur Chilton

Army Number: 18972

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

Awards: M.M. (Military Medal) London Gazette 14th September 1916

Born and lived at Shirebrook, Derbyshire. Son of Harry and Florence Alice Chilton, of 51, Prospect Drive, Shirebrook, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner at Shirebrook Colliery prior to enlisting at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 18th March 1915 and died of wounds, on 7th July 1916, aged 21, received in the attack on the German positions at La Boisselle, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, France. Plot 1, Row F Grave 34.

His brother Private Harold Chilton, 7th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.