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William Francis WALTON

Regimental number3256
Date of birth1891
Place of birthAshfield, Sydney, New South Wales
SchoolSt Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, New South Wales
Other trainingCompositor
ReligionRoman Catholic
OccupationJournalist
AddressEmmaville, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation29
Next of kinMother, Mrs Elizabeth Walton, 28 Blue Street, North Sydney, New South Wales
Enlistment date31 August 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name54th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/71/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A29 Suevic on 11 November 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll54th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 17 April 1918
Place of death or woundingVillers-Bretonneux
Place of burialNamps-au-Val British Cemetery (Plot II, Row A, Grave 3), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
160
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: William James and Elizabeth Walton, 20, Knox Street, Ashfield, New South Wales
Family/military connectionsCousins: 1634 Corporal Stanley Francis CHIPPINDALE DCM, 25th Field Artillery Brigade, died of wounds, 17 August 1916; 3985 Lance Corporal Reginald James GODFREY MM, 7th Field Ambulance, returned to Australia, 19 February 1919.
Other detailsWar service: France

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