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Dunton, Leonard, Sapper, 44000, 7th Field Company, Royal Engineers Born Derby Enlisted Derby Killed in action France & Flanders 12th November 1915

CWGC: Aged 18 Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, IX, D, 39

Derby Daily Express, 26th November 1915 and 23rd December 1915

Leonard Dunton was the son of Mr. Alfred Dunton, of 108, Chester Green Road, Derby, and he was an old scholar of St. Paul’s School. He was employed at Messrs. Newton Brothers, electrical engineers, of Alfreton Road, Derby, and he enlisted soon after war broke out. ‘According to a letter from his Sergeant, the building in which Sapper Dunton lay asleep was struck by a shell, with the result that he and a comrade were instantly killed by a falling girder.’