William David LAWTON MM

LAWTON, William David

Service Number: 480
Enlisted: 10 January 1916, Newcastle, New South Wales
Last Rank: Company Sergeant Major
Last Unit: 34th Infantry Battalion
Born: Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 12 March 1889
Home Town: Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Natural causes (coronary/pneumonia), Werrington, New South Wales, Australia, 20 June 1957, aged 68 years
Cemetery: Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium
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World War 1 Service

10 Jan 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 480, Newcastle, New South Wales
2 May 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 480, 34th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

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2 May 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 480, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney
1 Mar 1918: Promoted AIF WW1, Company Sergeant Major, 34th Infantry Battalion
31 Aug 1918: Honoured Military Medal, "The Last Hundred Days"
14 Aug 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Company Sergeant Major, 480, 34th Infantry Battalion

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Biography

Body initially willed to the Medical School University of Sydney N.S.W. - Then on 20 Aug 1958 interred at the old C.O.E. Rookwood Cemetery, Lidcombe, New South Wales - SOURCE (trees.ancestry.com.au)