Private Charles Crampton

Army Number: 3000

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Balderton, Nottinghamshire. Son of Edwin and Annie Crampton, of 11 Barnby Crossing, Newark, Nottinghamshire. He was a brake lad in a plaster pit prior to enlisting at Newark. He went to France on 25th June 1915 and was killed in action on 5th August 1915, whilst serving in the line at Sanctuary Wood, near Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Charles Crampton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Charles Street Wesleyan Chapel War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church Borough Roll of Honour, War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Newark Cemetery War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
St. Giles Church War Memorial, Balderton, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.