Donald Angus BEATON

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Service Number:	4937
Enlisted:	1 December 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Traralgon, Victoria, Australia, 28 June 1893
Home Town:	Koornalla, Latrobe, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Natural Causes, Traralgon, Victoria, Australia , 30 June 1973, aged 80 years
Cemetery:	Traralgon Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

1 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4937, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
18 Feb 1916:	Involvement Private, 4937, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
18 Feb 1916:	Embarked Private, 4937, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne
25 Feb 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4937, 12th Infantry Battalion
15 Apr 1917:	Imprisoned Captured at Pronville while wounded(hand) and interned in Limburg Prisoner of War Camp later of Dulmen
28 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4937, 12th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of Donald Beaton and Susannah (Jessie) Beaton nee Braden of Koornalla, Victoria.

Husband of Lily Beaton of Brunswick, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 13 July 1919 aboard HT Persic disembarking on 29 August 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal