William DALTON

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Service Number:	5963
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Tockwith, Yorkshire, England, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Coburg, Moreland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer/Career Soldier
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 3 October 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31. , Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor

2 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 5963, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
2 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 5963, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne
3 Oct 1917:	Involvement Sergeant, 5963, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5963 awm_unit: 22 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1917-10-03

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In 1911 he was a 28 year old career soldier at Longmoor Camp. Hampshire and .married .

At one point he had been a Regimental Sergeant Major.

Served with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers for 12 years. Emigrated to Australia 1912.

Enlisted: 12.9.16, Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Remembered on the Clyne War Memorial and on the Clyne United Free Church War Memorial, Brora, Sutherland.

He left a widow, Isabella Dalton [formerly of Dalchalm, Clyne ], 17 Victoria Street, Coburg, Victoria and a daughter, Elsie.