Army Number : 33047 (Served As Private J. Hall).

Battalion : 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Derby and lived at Ouse Bridge, Gedling, Nottingham. Son of Thomas and Mary Shelton, of 43, Victoria Road, Netherfield, Nottingham. He enlisted at Southampton and was killed in action, 9th October 1916, aged 37, during the attack on the Schwaben Redoubt, near Thiepval, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried/Commemorated : Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, France. Plot 12. Row L, Grave 9.

Private Charles Shelton is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. George’s Church War Memorial, Netherfield, Nottingham.
All Hallows Church War Memorial, Gedling, Nottingham.
Gedling Memorial Hall, War Memorial, Gedling, Nottingham.