D'ALTON, Talbot Aloysius De Largy
| Service Number: | 7260 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 September 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Queenstown, West Coast, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Queenstown State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 18 September 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 3. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Queenstown State School WWI Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7260, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 7260, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 7260, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Talbot was the son of De Largy D'Alton and Ruth D'Alton, and husband of Annie E. D'Alton, of Hobart, Tasmania. He had been born about 1890 in Warracknabeal, a wheatbelt town in Victoria, the second son of William and Ruth D’alton.
The D’Alton family moved to Queenstown in Tasmania when Talbot was quite young, perhaps after his father William died in 1905. The young Talbot D’Alton attended Queenstown State School, before going on to work as a clerk for for Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company. He married only a few months before enlisting.
He joined the 12th Battalion AIF in France during November 1917. During April 1918, he was badly wounded in the thigh and treated at various places in France until he rejoined his Battalion 16 September 1918. He was killed in action only two days later, along with 16 other members of the 12th Battalion near Jeancourt in France.
His younger brother, Sergeant Howard Hubert D'Alton, also enlisted with the 12th Battalion and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry at Dernancourt during 1918.
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