Claude Leslie UPTON

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Service Number:	58166
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements
Born:	Ballina, New South Wales, Australia, 10 November 1899
Home Town:	Ballina, Ballina, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Dairyman
Died:	Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, August 1927, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Wesleyan Methodist area, Section OSE, Grave 61. Interred on the 19 August 1927
Memorials:	Swan Bay Roll of Honor

4 Sep 1918:	Involvement Private, 58166, 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Bakara embarkation_ship_number: A41 public_note: ''
4 Sep 1918:	Embarked Private, 58166, 1st to 8th (QLD) Reinforcements, HMAT Bakara, Sydney

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Son of Amos John Upton and Caroline M.Upton of Carrington Street, Ballina, NSW

29 May 1918 - enlisted at Ballina, NSW, with the 6th QLD reinforcements.

14 November 1918 - transferred to the 9th Battalion

31 January 1919 - transferred to the 2nd Australian Field Bakery

20 March 1919 - transferred to the 9th Battalion

Commenced return to Australia 28 August 1919 aboard HT Kanowna disembarking on 26 October 1919 at Sydey for onward travel to Brisbane

Medal: British War Medal, Victory Medal

11 November 1919 - discharged at the 1st Military District as medically unfit due to pleurisy