Great Britain: WWI Death Penny / Memorial Plaque to Ethelbert Overton

Great Britain: WWI Death Penny / Memorial Plaque to Ethelbert Overton

Ethelbert Overton attested for the Bedfordshire Regiment and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War in Gallipoli from 10 August 1915. He and was killed in action during the attack on Kidney Hill, Gallipoli, five days later on 15 August 1915; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.