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WALTON, Charles William
(Service number 49660)

Aliases Enlisted as Charles
First Rank Private Last Rank

Birth

Date 27 May 1889 Place of Birth St Andrews

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Pleasant Valley, Geraldine
Occupation Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin W. G. WALTON (father), Pleasant Valley, Geraldine
Religion Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 26th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company
Date 9 June 1917
Transport Willochra
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
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Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 23 January 1960 Age 70 years
Place of Death Geraldine
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Geraldine Cemetery
Memorial Reference Services Section, Row 504, Plot 3
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles William Walton was born on 27 May 1889 at St Andrews, South Canterbury, the eldest son of Walter George and Sarah Louisa (née Hodgkinson) Walton. He started at Esk Valley School in 1894 and transferred to Otaio in 1899, where he left in 1904 to work at home. He was a ploughman at Pleasant Valley when he got the call-up in 1917. On 10 March 1920 at Chalmers Manse, Timaru, he married Frances May Butters, whose brother had married Charles' sister in 1919 at Chalmers Church. His brother Alfred also served in World War I. On 26 August 1920 over two hundred people gathered at Esk Valley to do honour to the ex-pupils of the school who had served in the war. A monument which had been erected by the efforts of ex-pupils to the memory of their fallen schoolmates, was unveiled. The “Roll,” arranged by Mrs Smithson and presented by her to the school, consists of thirty-eight photographs of the boys who had left for the war. Underneath each is inscribed his name and reinforcement. In a central oval are the Union Jack and New Zealand flags, with the inscription: “For King and Country, 1914-1918.” Included in the names is that of C. W. Walton.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [10 February 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [10 February 2018]; School Admission records (South Canterbury brances NZSG) [10 February 2018]; Geraldine Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [10 February 2018]; Timaru Herald, 31 August 1920 (Papers Past) [06 February 2018]

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