Walter Richard SWINTON

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SWINTON, Walter Richard

Service Number:	NX85811
Enlisted:	26 January 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/13th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Greta, New South Wales, Australia, 8 July 1920
Home Town:	Greta, Cessnock, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner (Pit Top Hand)
Died:	Unanderra, New South Wales, Australia, 9 August 1984, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

26 Jan 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX85811, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion
23 Aug 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX85811, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion, embarked for Suez
4 Mar 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX85811, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion, embarked Middle East for Sydney
1 Aug 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX85811, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion, embarked Cairns for Milne Bay
10 Mar 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX85811, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion, embarked Finschafen for Brisbane on board the Cape Perpetua
28 Apr 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX85811, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Eldest of two brothers (Walter and Ted) who served in the Army WWII, Private Walter Richard Swinton (Service No:NX85811) enlisted in the AIF on 26 January 1942 with General Details Depot (GDD), and marched out to 1 Infantry Training Battalion. Private Swinton served with 2/13th Infantry Battalion in the Middle East (23 August 1942 - 4 March 1943) and in New Guinea (1 August 1943 - 10 March 1944), and was atatched to 2/13th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 28 April 1945 ('being required for employment in an essential occupation' (NAA).

Walter was born in Greta, New South Wales in 1920, eldest of six children of Walter (Dick) Swinton (b1896 in Greta, New South Wales) and Doris Mary Boyle (b1900 at Anvil Creek via Greta, New South Wales). Dick, a Coal Miner, served in WWI (Private; Service No:2463). He and Doris married in 1921 in Greta, where they settled and raised their family and Dick worked as a Miner in the New Greta and Leconsfield Collieries, and served in the ACMF in WWII (Corporal; Service No:N270163).

Walter started work in Greta in the mines as a Wheeler (hauling coal carts), and was a Pit Top Hand in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, Walter was working in Maitland in 1950 when he married Evelyn Alice Elphick (nee Bradford; b1910 in Sydney, New South Wales). Walter and Evelyn settled in Maitland, where Walter was a Pit Top Hand, and then moved to Unanderra in the 1960s - Walter worked as a Labourer (Electrician's Assistant) until his death in 1984. Evelyn died in 1986.

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