SAXTON, John William
| Service Number: | 261 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Second Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Radford, Nottingham, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Galong, Harden, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 25 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) Grave IV. C. 13. Personal Inscription BELOVED SON OF MR. & MRS. SAXTON NOTTINGHAM REST IN PEACE , Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Feb 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 261, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Feb 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 261, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Feb 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 261, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney | |
| 20 Feb 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 261, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney | |
| 25 Apr 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Corporal, 261, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 261 awm_unit: 1st Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Second Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-04-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Mar 1895 Saxton John William Nottingham 7b 352
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
John was the son Thomas Butler Saxton and Elizabeth Chadburn who married in the Grantham area of Lincolnshire in 1885. Their children included:
Alice Maud (b.1886), Ellen Miriam (b.1887), Henry Butler (b.1889), Florence Elizabeth (b.1891/d.1893), Elsie Winifred (b.1893) and John William (b.1895). The Saxton family lived at: 25 Middlemore Yard, Bluegate, Grantham [C.1891]; 43 Dorset Street, Radford [Radford St Peter’s Church christening of John William Saxton in 1895 & C.1901]; 68 Garfield Road, Radford [C.1911]. Thomas, who worked as wine merchant’s porter in Grantham, died aged 33 in 1896; less than a year after John William was born. His widow didn’t re-marry and in the 1901 and 1911 censuses she states that she was working as a charwoman. A death notice for Corporal John William Saxton gave his mother’s address as either 90 or 99 Hartley Road, Nottingham . The post-war address for her in the CWGC records was 4 Churchville, Old Radford. Elizabeth Saxton, lived to the age of 95, dying in Nottingham in 1958.
He enlisted on 19 August 1914-address given on enlistment-17 Kintore Street, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia.
He embarked for England aboard HMAT Hororata A 20 from Melbourne on 19 October 1914 with the ‘C’ Company, 6th Infantry Bn., Australian Imperial Force; transferred to the 1st Company Australian Tunnelling Corps on 6 October 1915.
He is remembered on the Radford - St Peter's Church War Memorial
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