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DALTON, Thomas Daniel
(Service number 4/340)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	127 March 1892	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	38 Exeter Street, Lyttelton
Occupation	Porter
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	M. DALTON (father), Strathmore, Hinds
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Samoan Advance Party
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Railway Engineers
Date
Transport	Moeraki or Monowai
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Engineers

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	1 December 1929	Age	37 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 21, Plot 166
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Thomas Daniel Dalton was the son of Michael and Mary (née Horgan) Dalton. His mother died in 1894 when Thomas was just two years old. Thomas was educated at Waimataitai School, Timaru. In 1915 he married Johanna Cecilia Lufaro of Lyttelton. His brother, John William Dalton, also served in world War I.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 July 2018]; School Admission record (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [30 July 2018]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image [30 July 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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