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John Barwick Dalton, known to his family and friends as Jack, was born in Cottingham 5 Apr 1879 and baptised at St Mary's Church, Beverley on the 28 Mar 1898 a few days before his nineteenth birthday. His fifteen year old sister Ethel was baptised the same day. Jack was the second child, and eldest son, of Fred Barwick Dalton and his wife Martha, nee Walgate. His father was a clerk with the North Eastern Railway and the family lived in Hartlepool in the 1880s. By 1891 they had returned to Beverley and were living at 3 Kingston Terrace, Mill Lane, later moving to 5 Norwood Dale. Eventually Fred, worked as a clerk in the accounts department of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Jack was a shipwright, he joined the Army in 1902 and on Census night, 2 Apr 1911, he was aged thirty two, a bachelor, and serving as a Lance Corporal in the Royal Engineers, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent. He married Mrs Sarah Jane Campbell (nee Sanders) in Kent in 1913 and became step-father to her four children.
John Barwick Dalton's Medal Roll shows he arrived in Egypt 24 Aug 1915. A report of his father's death in the Beverley Guardian 16 Oct 1915 includes the comment that Jack was in the Dardanelles. The London Gazette 13 Feb 1917 announced the award of the Meritorious Service Medal to Corporal (Acting Sjt) J B Dalton, Royal Engineers, and the Beverley Guardian of 19 May, added the information he was currently on service in Salonika. Jack survived the war.
At the time of National Registration in Sep 1939, John Barwick Dalton, a widower, lived at North Grange Cottage, Leeds and was employed as a caretaker. He died two years later, aged sixty-one years, and was buried at Harehills Cemetery, Leeds 22 Dec 1941.
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