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Born: 9 November 1879
Died: 19 May 1915
Killed in action at Gallipoli on 19 May 1915 during a sustained attack on Anzac lines during which three Turkish soldiers entered the 2nd Battalion's lines. Harold Barton shot one of them but was immediately killed by the others who in turn were killed (Commander's Diary, 2nd Battalion, May 1915, folio 13). For some reason his records show his date of death as 23 May 1915.
His mother lived at 68 Muston Street, Mosman, while his wife lived at the Captain Cook Hotel, Botany, which was owned by her mother. [JSB]
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- Barton Harold Pryor : SERN LIEUT : POB Melbourne VIC : POE Sydney NSW : NOK W Barton Eva Monaro (NAA file)
- MEN OF THE DARDANELLES. LIEUT. H. P. BARTON. (newspaper article)
- AUSTRALIA'S LOSSES 32nd and 33rd Casualty Lists 530 NAMES INCLUDED 21 KILLED IN ACTION (newspaper article)
- Find War Dead (webpage)
- An Officer's Death. (newspaper article)
- CADETS' CHRONICLE SENIOR CADETS. (newspaper article)
- Barton Harold Pryor : SERN LIEUT : POB Melbourne VIC : POE Sydney NSW : NOK W Barton Eva Monaro (webpage)
- Roll of Honour: Harold Pryor Barton (webpage)
- Outdoor portrait of Captain (Capt) Harold Leslie Nash; Capt Garnet Wollesley Brown; Lieutenant (Lt) Harold Pryor Barton, all of the 2nd Battalion, who embarked from Sydney, NSW, on 18 October 1914 aboard transport HMAT Suffolk (A23). (webpage)
- Harold Pryor Barton (photograph)
- Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-18 War: AWM4 Subclass 23/19 - 2nd Infantry Battalion, AWM4 23/19/3 - May 1915 (webpage)
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- BARTON H. F. on the West Face of the Mosman War Memorial