Private John R. Shelton

Army Number: 265309 formerly 2972

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Arthur and Louisa Shelton, of 37, Ciudel Street, Old Radford, Nottingham. Went to France on 25th February 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 21, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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