Edward Percy BARTON

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Service Number:	148
Enlisted:	29 April 1902, 7th Australian Commonwealth Horse (Queensland)
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse
Born:	Wagg Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 4 July 1873
Home Town:	Charleville, Murweh, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Drover
Died:	Pneumonia, Fort Franklin Hosptial, Portsea Victoria, Australia, 14 August 1902, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Sorrento Civil Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 148
1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 148, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse
29 Apr 1902:	Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 148, Australian Commonwealth Horse, 7th Australian Commonwealth Horse (Queensland)
19 May 1902:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 148, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, Embarked from Pinkenbar in Brisbane on "Custodian", bound for Durban. Arrived after peace was declared, on 22 June 1902.
14 Aug 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 148, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, D.O.D. in Fort Franklin Barracks Hospital at Portsea.

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Edward Percy BARTON was born on 4th July, 1873 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales

His parents were Thomas Hugh BARTON & Susan Jane HEATH who married on 3rd June 1867 in Deniliquin, New South Wales

His father was from Westmeath in Ireland & his mother from Devonshire, England

He served with the 7th Australian Commonwealth Horse (Queensland)

He died in hospital in Portsea, Victoria on 14th August, 1902 of pneumonia and is buried in the Sorrento Cemetery in Victoria