Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Henry George Barton
Ancestor's date of birth: 31/12/1877
Ancestor's date of death: 01/01/1938
Cause of Death: old age
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Butcher
Service Number: 593 (in both contingents)
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Beechworth
Unit: 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen and 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: 23/05/1900
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): CPL, Date Effective: 06/01/1916 (a private when finally discharged)
Contingent: Fourth and Fifth Victorian
Ship: Victorian, Date of Sailing: 01/05/1900
Memorial details: Harry Barton is on the Memorial in Myrtleford and VMR Memorial Melbourne.
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: QSA with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Rhodesia, King's South Africa Medal with SA 1901 and 1902 clasps. British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Personal Characteristics: Height: 175 cm; weight: 60 kg.
Reasons to go and fight: not sure
Details of service in war: May 1900 - Merch 1901 with 4 VIB in Rhodesia, west Transvaal, Cape Colony including relief of Philipstown (11 February 1901), capture of Boer guns at Read's Drift (23 February), and capture of Boer patrol near Doornkloof (1 March 1901). March 1901 - March 1902 with 5 VMR in east Transvaal and Natal frontier, including defeat at Wilmansrust where 18 killed and 42 wounded (12 June 1901), and successful intervention at Onverwacht (4 January 1902); heaviest casualties of any Australian contingent, at Wilmansrust suffered the costliest defeat.
Service and life after the Boer War: Did not marry. Joined the AIF 6 January 1916. Served in 57 Bn in France. Wounded in action (gassed at Rouen) 31 May 1918, in hospital for 7 months discharged 7 August 1919. Died 1938.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Graeme Keith Abraham, Bright VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew
