ALTON+WILLIAM

Alton, Thomas William, Private, 19744, 10th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Formerly 12984, Leicestershire Regiment Awarded the Military Medal Born Codnor, Derbyshire Enlisted Chesterfield, Derbyshire Resided New Tupton, Derbyshire Killed in action 11th June 1918 aged 22 Husband of Mary Benon (formerly Alton), of Ringwood Terrace, New Tupton, Chesterfield. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial

1911 Census A coal miner pony driver Son of Uriah, a coal miner hewer, and Ellen Alton, of 2, Cross Street, Grassmoor, Derbyshire