Oliver Horace BURTON

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Service Number:	NX178608
Enlisted:	30 May 1944
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Lae Prisoner of War Garrison Company
Born:	Bringa, New South Wales, Australia, 12 January 1900
Home Town:	Weethalle, Bland, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor Mechanic / Welder
Died:	Scrub typhus, New Guinea, 4 August 1945, aged 45 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery (CWGC) Grave Reference Location ~ Plot J. Row C. Grave 10. Personal Inscription ~ "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE..EVER REMEMBERED BY WIFE AND SON".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, NX178608
30 May 1944:	Enlisted Cowra, New South Wales
30 May 1944:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, NX178608
23 Feb 1945:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, Lae Prisoner of War Garrison Company

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Other service number N271095

2 Det. Lae PW Compund

Rank - Sergeant

Son of Charles William and Mary Ellen Burton; husband of Rachel Sarah Burton, of Cowra, New South Wales