BOUGHTON, John Harold
| Service Number: | 486 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Nyngan, New South Wales, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | West Tamworth, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | West Marrickville Superior School, New South Wales |
| Occupation: | Railway Clerk |
| Died: | Illness, 1st General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt, 24 October 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Row D, Grave 159 Chaplain S.A. Beveridge officiated Headstone inscription reads: Beloved by his comrades as a soldier and friend, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Culcairn Railway Department Roll of Honor, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 486, 19th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 486, 19th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 486, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
John Harold BOUGHTON (Service Number 486) was born on 30 July 1891 at Nyngan. At the age of 15 he began work as a probationer in the Superintendent of Lines District in the Traffic Branch and in October 1906, progressing to become a junior porter a year later. In 1912, when he would have been 21, he was stationed out of Sydney at Picton as a clerk. In April 1914 he moved to Junee as a porter and later in the year as a 7th class clerk at Culcairn. Whilst at that town, in March 1915 he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces.
He embarked from Australia on HMAT ‘Ceramic’ through Sydney on 25 June 1915. He joined the 19th Battalion in Egypt but would seem to have still been in training when he became ill with dysentery and died at No. 1 Australian General Hospital Heliopolis on 24 October 1915.
He is buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery.
(NAA B4255-3100497)
Submitted 11 May 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Charles Matheson Boughton and Aimee Boughton of March Street, Richmond, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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