Barton, Nathaniel Dunbar

 Person: id 2398
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USyd
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World War IWorld War II
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Family name
Barton
Given name(s)
Nathaniel Dunbar
Initials
N.D.
Gender
Male
Combined start dates
1914
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
M.B., Ch.M. : Major, 7th A.L.H. Regt., A.I.F., Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine. Enlisting 5th November, 1914, and sailing 18th December, served at Gallipoli, where wounded 10th July, 1915, and then in Sinai Desert, Palestine and elsewhere till wounded at Amman 27th March, 1918, and invalided to Australia, arriving 18th August. Promoted captain, 10th October, 1915; major, 8th September, 1916. Mentioned in Despatches. Member of the Coronation Contingent, 1937. Early education at The King''s School. Later at St. Paul's College. In November, 1917, he occupied Hill 330, Auja, with 19 men, 15 rifles and two Hotchkiss guns which jammed, and captured 4 officers and 194 men with 4 machineguns, rifles and bombs.—Official History of Australia in the Great War.
USyd residential college
St. Paul's College, University of Sydney
Parental occupation
Pastoralist
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Served in WWII
WWI
Yes
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No
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Yes
BOR Archives File
Yes
Source Details text
SUU Annual Report 1945University of Sydney Medical Journal, 1946, p.132
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