William Barton

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Portrait of William Barton
Imagined portrait. No photograph of William is known.

Private (later Corporal) 810712 · D Company, 28th (Māori) Battalion · Te Kūiti

Early life

William Barton was a Ngāti Maniapoto man from Te Kūiti. When he enlisted he was married and working as a storeman, and his wife, Mrs V. R. Barton, lived in William Street, Te Kūiti. His date of birth and parents are still to be found.

War

William sailed with D Company in 1945, having been in camp at the military depot at Pukekohe. His draft left late in the war, and it may have reached Italy after the fighting ended in May 1945. He is named on the Ngāti Maniapoto Second World War memorial flagpole at Te Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kūiti, as Corporal W. Barton. His life after the war is still a gap.

Sources

Online Cenotaph C117456; Ngāti Maniapoto WW2 memorial, Te Kūiti.

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