Norman Forbes UPTON

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Service Number:	33839
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	Field Artillery Brigades
Born:	Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia, 1893
Home Town:	Bankstown, Bankstown, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Tailor's Cutter
Died:	Burwood, New South Wales, Australia, 13 November 1960, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales Crematorium area DD, Rose Garden 10, Position 179
Memorials:

11 May 1917:	Involvement Gunner, 33839, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
11 May 1917:	Embarked Gunner, 33839, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne

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Son of James E. Upton and Mary Upton of Waterloo, NSW.

Served a five years tailor cutters apprenticeship with David Jones

Husband of Margaret Olive Upton nee Pitt of Macaulay Avenue, Central Bankstown, NSW. Norman and Olive married during 1916c in Marrickville, NSW.

8 October 1916 - enlisted at Sydney, NSW, with the Field Artillery Brigade with the rank of Gunner.

26 November 1917 - transferred to the 2nd Field Artillery

20 June 1919 - commenced return to Australia aboard Konig Frederich August disembarking on 10 August 1919.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

10 September 1919 - discharged at the 2nd Military District