Roy LOTON MM

LOTON, Roy

Service Number: 4875
Enlisted: 22 June 1915, Place of Enlistment Ballarat, Victoria.
Last Rank: Driver
Last Unit: 1st Field Artillery Brigade
Born: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1896
Home Town: Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling: Macarthurs Street State School, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Slaughterman
Died: Died of wounds, France, 9 August 1918
Cemetery: Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

22 Jun 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 4875, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Place of Enlistment Ballarat, Victoria.
15 Sep 1915: Involvement Driver, 4875, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Makarini embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
15 Sep 1915: Embarked Driver, 4875, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , SS Makarini, Melbourne
20 Nov 1917: Honoured Military Medal
9 Aug 1918: Involvement Driver, 4875, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4875 awm_unit: 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1918-08-09

Driver Roy Loton.


Roy Loton was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1896. Abandoned at birth, he was adopted and raised by Fanny Loton and, after her marriage, also by her husband Percy Goad. He was educated at Macarthur Street School and attested for the Australian Imperial Force on 17 June 1915, aged 18 years. Embarking on 15 September 1915 from Melbourne in the S.S. Makarini he was taken on the strength of the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade in Egypt on 20 October 1915. Disembarking at Marseille on 17 May 1916, he joined the Base Depot at Etaples 3 days later and joined the 1st Divisional Artillery Column on 20 October 1916 before transferring to No. 1 Battery, 1st Field Artillery Brigade on 11 January 1917.

Loton was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous devotion to his work in carrying ammunition at Westhoek, during the preparations for the Battle of Broodseinde, Ypres, 4 October 1917. On 9 August 1918, near Harbonniere, France, during the Battle of Amiens, he was wounded in the stomach by a shell and died later the same day at the 8th Field Ambulance. Originally buried at White Chateau British Cemetery he was re-interred at the Adelaide British Cemetery, Villers Bretonneaux, France in 1919. After the war, Loton’s medals (including now absent British War and Victory Medals), memorial plaque and scroll were sent to his foster mother, Fanny Goad.
Courtesy of Warwick Carter

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