Regimental number | 2530 |
Date of birth | |
Place of birth | Parkside, South Australia |
School | Parkside, Rose Park and Pinnaroo Public Schools, South Australia |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Clerk |
Address | Parkside, South Australia |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 18 |
Next of kin | Father, John Andrew Walton, 24 Fullarton Road, Parkside, South Australia |
Previous military service | 74th Infantry |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 48th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/65/3 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on |
Regimental number from Nominal Roll | 2529 |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 48th Battalion |
Fate | Returned to Australia |
Discharge date | |
Family/military connections | Brothers: 3924 Corporal John Howard WALTON, 3rd Australian Light Railway Operating Company, returned to Australia, 11 May 1919; 2390 Staff Sergeant Frank Raymond WALTON, 29th Company, Army Service Corps, returned to Australia, 9 December 1918; 2824 Lance Corporal Geoffrey WALTON, 29th Company, Army Service Corps, returned to Australia, 21 March 1919. |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Wounded, Passchendaele, Belgium, 12 October 1917; invalided to No. 4 London General Hospital; discharged at Keswick, South Australia, as medically unfit, 25 June 1918. |