TURTON W.

Walter Turton

Private CH/171 (S)

Chatham Bn. R.N. Div. Royal Marine Light Infantry

Walter Turton died on 30th May 1915, aged 41 years, and was buried in the GIBRALTAR (NORTH FRONT) CEMETERY, Gibralta.

Private Turton was one of "Kitcheners Marines", who were transferred from the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regt) to the RMLI.

"600 RMLI transfers came from 2 regiments - 200 from the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI), and 400 from the Sherwood Foresters. They were predominantly ex-miners and labourers, fit men wanted for their ability to dig trenches and tunnels. The 200 KOYLI recruits were transferred to Plymouth Division RMLI, and were given service numbers PLY/1(S) to PLY/200(S). This was also the case for the Sherwood Foresters, 200 of which were dispatched to Portsmouth where already 30 men were recruited, and so they became PO/31(S) to PO/230(S). 200 remaining Foresters went to Chatham and were numbered CH/1(S) to CH/200(S)."

He was born c1873 at Stanton Hill, to parents Elijah & Esther Turton. Elijah Turton was a Coal Miner, who died in May 1873. By the 1881 census Esther Turton was living with her family on Fackley Lane, Skegby.

In April 1894, Walter Turton married Elizabeth Walker, at St Mary's Church, Sutton-in-Ashfield. On the 1901 census Walter was a Coal Miner living with his family in Sutton-in-Ashfield. At the time of his death his wife was living at 23 Phoenix Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. His eldest son, George Turton died in France in 1918, and is also remembered on Sutton's War Memorial.

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Research by Heather Faulkes
Information on "Kitcheners Marines" kindly supplied by Des Turner