William Robert Felton [18051] ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military Service, 1914 Oct 22 to 1919 Jun 9. ³ Title
Felton William Robert : SERN 1039 : POB Bathurst NSW : POE Liverpool NSW : NOK F Felton William Albert

Enlisted: 22 Oct 1914
Occupation: carter
Not Married.
Deserted: 15 Oct 1917 to 19 Oct 1917
Sentenced to 10 Years Penal Servitude and 23 days pay forfeit 7 Nov 1917 commuted to 2 years 14 dec 1917
Death Date: 22 Aug 1956 at Repatriation Hospital, Concord.
Discharged: 9 Jun 1919
Released from Prison: 29 Dec 1918

• Newspaper, 1915 Jul 13, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁴ A HARD TASK. (1915, July 13). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 -1954), p. 10. Retrieved July 26, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15593172>
A HARD TASK.
Private W. R. Felton, writing from a hos-pital at Cairo to his parents at Waterloo, Sydney, says: "My wounds are healing. One bullet went through the calf of my leg. The bullets were pretty thick everywhere, and I was dodging them like a champion foot-baller, but this one got me. I got two through my cap before I got the one in the leg. There is plenty of excitement here, as much as anybody wants. Our battalion was in a bayo-net charge one night, when we captured some of the Turks' trenches. If there is one thing they have no love for it is the bayonet. They never put up a good flight with the cold steel in front of them, but with the rifle they are good. Some of them are jolly game. They crawl right up to within two or three yards of our trenches. Needless to say they never get back to their own. We have some good sport sometime. A couple of us go out at night looking for the snipers. We've caught three or four of them. Sometimes we have a fine chase after them. Of course the best men win, and that is nearly always us. I had 12 days in the "firing line."

• Registration: Death, 1956, Burwood District, New South Wales, Australia. 18869/1956
FELTON, WILLIAM ROBERT
WILLIAM ALBERT
NELLIE
BURWOOD

• Death Notice: Sydney Morning Herald, 1956 Aug 24, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁵ FELTON
William Robert
Death notice
22AUG1956
Death
59
at Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, late of Belmore
Sydney Morning Herald
24AUG1956

• Newspaper, 1915 Jun 4, Perth, , Western Australia, Australia. ⁶ NEW SOUTH WALES. (1915, June 4). Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 -1954), p. 16. Retrieved July 26, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37426703>

WOUNDED.
…
13th Battalion
Private W. R. Felton, …

William married Gladys Leah Eade [18047] [MRIN: 7255], daughter of Josiah Eade [18041] and Anna Maria Ford [235], on 1920 Apr 24 in Marrickville, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia.¹ (Gladys Leah Eade [18047] was born in 1898 in Redfern District, New South Wales and died on 1978 Nov 14 in New South Wales, Australia.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registration: Marriage, 1920, Marrickville District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁷ 7006/1920
FELTON, WILLIAM R
EADE, GLADYS L
MARRICKVILLE

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1945 Apr 24, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ⁸ Family Notices. (1945, April 24). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 -1954), p. 12. Retrieved July 26, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17941839>

FELTON-EADE -April 24, 1920, at Methodist Church, Stanmore, by the Rev. S. J. Hoban, Gladys Leah, younger daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Eade, to Wil-liam Robert, eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Felton, Present address: 6 Flat Bridge Road, Belmore.