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Sgt. Samuel Orton
British Army 4th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Newark
Samuel Orton was an iron moulder's labourer who had attested to the 4th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters as a reservist in 1902. He signed on for four further years in 1912 and in 1914 was stationed at Backworth, where he met his wife. He had a poor disciplinary record initially but rose to become lance corporal, corporal, lance sergeant and was discharged as a sergeant in 1919. He was in Imbros in 1917, and also sailed to Alexandria from the same place. He was wounded by shrapnel in 1917.
