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NALTON, Edwin
 | Rank: Shoeing Smith Year of death: 1916 Date of birth: 1886 Date of death: 28/6/1916 Place of death: Scarborough Service number: L/12152 Regiment: Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery C Battery 161 Brigade. Scarborough Pals Medals: Cemetery location: Manor Road Cemetery Section L 5.37 Where remembered?: CWG Manor Road Cemetery |
Biographical Information
Edwin was born in Driffield, at 3 Stanley Street. He and his elder brother Alfred were “town bobbies”. In 1907 he married Elizabeth, and they had two sons. They lived at 29 Sandringham St, Scarborough.
Edwin was the first casualty of the Scarborough Pals, dying in Scarborough after eating contaminated bully beef.