John Edward (Jack) WALTON

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WALTON, John Edward

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Royal Field Artillery
Born:	castlemaine, Victoria Australia , 4 May 1886
Home Town:	Northbridge, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Brass Finisher
Died:	respiratory failure, Gordon, New South Wales, Australia , 6 June 1976, aged 90 years
Cemetery:	Jindera St Johns Lutheran Cemetery, New South Wales
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

Date unknown:	Involvement Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery

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Biography contributed

John Edward WALTON. – Service Number - (ex-UK army - No Officer Numbers issued)

Enlisted: Aug 1908 – 7th Light Horse Regiment (NSW Lancers), Parramatta NSW (22y/o).

Enlisted; Jul 1915 – Royal Field Artillery, London, UK (29Y/o)

Embarked: SS Osterley, Arrived 17 July 1915, London UK

Disembarked: Sydney Australia SS?? be confirmed)

Last Rank: Captain RFA

Last Unit: Headquarters 5th Army Brigade - Royal Field Artillery - 1914-1918

Discharged - Mar 1919, Sydney, NSW (33 yrs)

Born – 04 May 1886 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

Married – 22 May 1915, Rozelle NSW - Elezabeth” Betty” Walton (Nee Eckert)

Hometown: “Lahore” - #51/3 Cliff Ave, North Bridge NSW

Schooling: Intermediate/Advanced

Occupation: Brass Finisher/Manager/Civil-Consulting Engineer(?)

Died - 06 Jun 1976, Sydney NSW. (Age, 90Yrs)

Conflict: WWI – Western Front - France – Artillery.

John Edward Walton (Jack) was born at the Castlemaine, a small rural town just over 123 km from Melbourne, Victoria, (the family had just moved to this area, having lived near Gelong on Victoria’s coast) in 1886. He was one of eight children to John and Mary Ann (nee Tatnall) Jack had 6 sisters & 1 elder brother, and qualified as a Brass Finisher in 1908. (Jack’s mother, Mary-Ann “Polly” Tatnall, passed away in 1935 & Jack may have been educated at the Marrickville West Public School). Jack joined the NSW Lancers, Citizen Force (7th Light Horse Regiment) from 1908 to Aug 1913 before the outbreak of WW1, he travelled to the UK (SS Osterley, July 1915) and joined the Royal Field Artillery (RFA), appointed to Headquarters 5th Army Brigade, RFA. While in France (on leave from the front) he played in a 11a-side Aussie rules game to raise funds for the Red-Cross., Jack was an artillery officer and was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, and Victory Medal. He retired from the RFA in 1919 and returned to “Amhurst” (#8 Miller St, Nth Sydney) where Jack was working, before moving to “Kedu Glen” (Katy Glen) in Mar 1919. While he built his home “Lahore” in North Bridge NSW and raised 3 children (Patricia, John & Tony).

Source: oral Family History

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