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Harry Adrian WALTON

Regimental number2530
Date of birth6 April 1898
Place of birthParkside, South Australia
SchoolParkside, Rose Park and Pinnaroo Public Schools, South Australia
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationClerk
AddressParkside, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation18
Next of kinFather, John Andrew Walton, 24 Fullarton Road, Parkside, South Australia
Previous military service74th Infantry
Enlistment date10 July 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name48th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/65/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 28 August 1916
Regimental number from Nominal Roll2529
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll48th Battalion
FateReturned to Australia 21 April 1918
Discharge date25 June 1918
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 3924 Corporal John Howard WALTON, 3rd Australian Light Railway Operating Company, returned to Australia, 11 May 1919; 2390 Staff Sergeant Frank Raymond WALTON, 29th Company, Army Service Corps, returned to Australia, 9 December 1918; 2824 Lance Corporal Geoffrey WALTON, 29th Company, Army Service Corps, returned to Australia, 21 March 1919.
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War service: Western Front

Wounded, Passchendaele, Belgium, 12 October 1917; invalided to No. 4 London General Hospital; discharged at Keswick, South Australia, as medically unfit, 25 June 1918.

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