Susan Carmichael has provided the following:
John was born in 1895, the son of Anthony and Harriet Jane Charlton. His mother was Harriet Jane Elliott, born in Mold in Flintshire. His parents married in 1875 in Hexham, Northumberland.
The 1901 the census informs us that he lived in Birtley Village, Birtley, Bellingham, Northumberland with his parents, 3 brothers, 2 sisters and a nephew. His father was a plasterer.
In 1911 he was still living in Birtley, now with 2 brothers, a sister, and his nephew. By this time he was employed as an auxiliary postman.
John Anthony Charlton was living in Horncastle, Lincolnshire when he enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters( Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment).
North Tyne Magazine, Vol.XXVIII, no.307, November 1918, page 5 contains the following:
“John Anthony Charlton has been killed in action in France. He was every inch a soldier, and had attained the rank of sergeant. He had been a Territorial before hostilities commenced, and on the outbreak of the war mobilised with the Northumberland Fusiliers. In 1916, he was transferred to the Sherwood Foresters. He spent several months in Ireland during the riots there, but went out to France in 1917, and was wounded in May of that year being invalided home for convalescence. He went to the front again in March of this year, and has seen a good deal of fighting. He was noted as a keen and successful shot, and had been selected to give instructions in musketry.”
John Anthony Charlton is remembered in Birtley on B34.01
