NORTON, Clyde Reginald Bourke
| Service Number: | 1257 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 38th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | St. Kilda, Vic., 1897 |
| Home Town: | Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne C of E Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Cashier |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 12 March 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais - Hauts-de-France II F 2A |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Jun 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 1257, 38th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Jun 1916: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 1257, 38th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 12 Mar 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 1257, 38th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1257 awm_unit: 38th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-03-12 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Son of Clyde and Edith NORTON
CLYDE REGINALD BURKE NORTON who died in No. 14 Stationary Hospital on 12th March 1917, two days after his twenty-first birthday, was the son of "Mr. C. B. Norton. He was born in 1897 and entered the Preparatory School in 1904 and came up to the Senior School in 1909. He was cox of the crew in 1912 and passed the
Junior Public Examination in 1913, and leaving that year went into an office.
He enlisted in February 1916 and went into camp at Bendigo, and reached the front in November as a member of the 38th Battalion. On 5th January 1917 he wrote as -follows: " Major Maudsley told me that he was recommending me for a third stripe, so I felt quite bucked up. As far as health is concerned I am not bad, but have a rotten cold and have lost my voice. Anyhow, I am taking cod liver oil
and hoping for the best." 3rd February : "I have been on the sick list again. I came out of the trenches again with bronchitis and was sent to our divisional rest station; from there to No. 2 C.C.S., and on again, a stretcher case, to No. 3 Canadian Hospital. I have run a high temperature varying from 99 to 104 degrees ever since I have been here. I don't know what is wrong, but it must be a fever
of some sort. It was bad luck having to leave the battalion when I was so near my third stripe. Of course in my absence someone else will get the recommendation." From there he was sent on 15th February to No. 14 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, where he died on 12th March.- Rex Norton was a plucky lad, and he is only one of the many cases in which the lack of reinforcements prevented him
getting the rest and change to which he. was undoubtedly entitled.
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