BURTON, Norman George
| Service Number: | 1157 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, 8 January 1889 |
| Home Town: | Chatswood, Willoughby, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station overseer |
| Died: | Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, 3 October 1957, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales Unmarked grave, Catholic monumental, H9, Grave 0066 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 1157, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
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| 28 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 1157, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carly Sheil
Norman George Manly Joseph "Norm" Burton was born on 8 January 1889 to Solomon Burton and Mary Madeline Genevieve (Martin) Burton in Chatswood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
He joined the 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment and served at Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine before being wounded at the Battle of Beersheba and finally discharged in March 1919.
On an Anzac Day visit to Sydney in 1920 he met a former sweetheart from pre-war days in Bourke and just six weeks later he and Lillian Annie Johnson were married at Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood on 1 June 1920.
Norm passed away on 3 October 1957 in Chatswood.