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BARTON-BROWNE, Walter Raleigh
(Service number 11226)

Aliases	W R Bardon
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Bombardier

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Seed cleaner
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Barton-Browne (mother), 12 Phillip St, Dunedin
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	12th Reinforcements Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company
Date	1 May 1916
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	NZ Field Artillery, 10th (Trench Mortar) Battery

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	6 October 1918	Age
Place of Death	Le Cateau, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Ribecourt British Cemetery, Nord, France
Memorial Reference	II. G. 3
New Zealand Memorials	Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Walter Barton-Browne was the son of Mrs M.A. Barton-Browne, of 213 High St, Dunedin. His brother Gilbert Humphrey Barton-Browne (17876) also served in WW1

Sources

Cenotaph Sep 2013

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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