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Wilson  Turton

Name on Board W Turton
Name on Service
Records
Wilson   Turton
Enlistment Age 35
Occupation Stoker
Place of Birth Huddersfield, England
Next of Kin Mary Elizabeth Turton
Address 7 Melrose Street, Newport, Vic
Marital Status M
Enlistment Date 31/01/1916
Service No. 5424
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 28/07/1916
Embarkation Ship HMAT Themistocles A32
Unit on Embarkation 22nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 15/06/1918
Unit on Death 22nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Private
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
France
Cemetery or Memorial Mericourt-L'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension, Mericourt-L'Abbe, Peronne, Picardie, France
Additional Information Australian War Memorial Photo E02460: Group portrait of A Company of the 22nd Battalion with their rifles and lewis guns, France: Picardie, Somme, Corbie Albert Area, Franvillers, 31 May 1918
Additional References Australian War Memorial Photo E02460
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