Lance Corporal Clifford Banton, 201018

  • Batt - 1/5
  • Unit - Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
  • Section -
  • Date of Birth - 1896
  • Died - 01/07/1916
  • Age - 20

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Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Joseph Banton a Coal Miner Stone Header, born 1855 in Licknell, Derbyshire and his wife Elizabeth, born 1869 in Coleorton, Leicestershire. Clifford was a Coal Miner's Pony Boy and was born in 1896 in Castle Gresley, Derbyshire, he had one sibling, a brother Wilfred, born 1892 in Castle Gresley, Derbyshire. In April 1911 the family home was at Moira Road, Donisthorpe, Leicestershire.

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - World War I
  • Other Memorials - Donisthorpe Memorial Gateway,
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
  • Unit - Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)
  • Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
  • Burial Commemoration - Thiepval Mem., Somme, France
  • Born - Castle Gresley, Derbyshire
  • Enlisted - Donisthorpe, Leicestershire
  • Memorial - DONISTHORPE & OAKTHORPE MEM., LEICS
  • Memorial - ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH, DONISTHORPE, LEICS

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