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John was born in Beverley in Sep 1893 to George Frederick and Mary Barton (nee Law). He was baptised alongside his older brother George Wilfred and sister Dorothy Mary in Beverley Minster on 29 Oct. George Frederick was a grocer at this time and the family were living at Wednesday Market, Beverley. Younger brother Kenneth arrived in 1907 by which time the Bartons were living at 12 St Mary’s Terrace.
John attended the Beverley Wesleyan School but was awarded a County Council scholarship at 13 and moved to Hymers College in 1906, leaving in Dec 1909. On the 1911 Census John’s occupation was given as a booking clerk for North Eastern Railways.
He enlisted with the East Yorkshire Regiment, 10th (1st Hull Pals) Battalion, the Hull Commercials and by Nov 1915 found himself in Egypt. In Mar 1916 the Battalion was moved to France. John was awarded his commission in Sep 1917 age 24. He was posted to the Yorkshire Regiment on 20 Nov 1917 and returned to France.
John was injured at the beginning of Feb 1918. The Beverley Guardian published a small piece under the 'Stricken Brave' banner on 9 Feb and then a photograph appeared the following week saying he was in hospital in Oxford.
On the 1939 Register John, a railway goods agent, is living in Bradford with his wife, Edith. Edith Dawes was a probationary nurse in Reading in 1911 and a wedding took place between John L Barton and Edith Dawes in 1919 in Reading
Edith died in 1961 and John moved to Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex where he died, aged 78, in Southlands Court Hotel in 1971.
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