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| 13/01/2021 |
Thomas Burton was the youngest son of David and Mary Jane Burton. David Burton and Mary Donnelly were married on 8th January 1868 in the district of Dungannon. |
| 13/01/2021 |
Private Thomas Burton arrived in the Balkans on 17th March 1915. |
| 13/01/2021 |
The 1911 census shows the family had moved to house 62 in Kashmir Road, the Falls, Belfast. His brothers and sister worked in the weaving industry. Thomas was a flax yarn bundler. He was 29 years old. |
| 13/01/2021 |
The 1901 census lists Thomas J as age 20, living with the family at house 264 in Cupar Street, Falls Ward, Belfast. Thomas was working as a labourer. His mother was a widow. |
| 13/01/2021 |
After the death of his father, the family farm at Curran was sold and the family moved to Belfast. |
| 13/01/2021 |
Family: David Burton, Mary Jane Burton, Alice Burton (born 7th January 1869), Robert Charles Burton (born 14th March 1870), David Burton (born 21st October 1871), Mary M Burton (born 24th October 1874), John Burton (born 6th December 1876), Thomas James Burton (born 30th August 1878). |
| 13/01/2021 |
Thomas, his three brothers and two sisters, all attended Derryfubble School, east of Eglish. |
| 13/01/2021 |
Thomas was only nine months old when his father, David, was killed on the farm while ploughing, when the horses came back on to him. |
| 13/01/2021 |
Thomas James Burton was born on 30th August 1878. He was the youngest of six children, all born in the Benburb area. |
| 13/01/2021 |
His eldest brother, David, left home as a young man and did not keep in contact but some years after his mother died, he returned to Eglish in 1934 as a United States Army Major (retired). He married and fathered a son, David, who later went to live in Scotland. |
| 25/05/2020 |
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| 28/11/2018 |
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| 28/11/2018 |
BURTON - Killed in action at the Dardanelles , 2nd July , Private Thomas James Burton , youngest son of Mary Jane Burton and the late David Burton of Curran, Benburb. |
| 28/11/2018 |
O God of love; O God of peace. |
| 28/11/2018 |
Make wars throughout the world to cease; |
| 28/11/2018 |
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| 28/11/2018 |
The wrath of sinful man restrain; |
| 28/11/2018 |
Give peace, O God, gives peace again. |
| 28/11/2018 |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 31th July 1915: |
| 28/11/2018 |
Whom shall we trust but Thee, O Lord, |
| 28/11/2018 |
Where rest but on Thy faithful word? |
| 28/11/2018 |
Give peace, O God, gives peace again. |
| 28/11/2018 |
When saints and angels dwell above, |
| 28/11/2018 |
All hearts are knit in holy love; |
| 28/11/2018 |
Oh bind us in that heavenly chain, |
| 28/11/2018 |
Give peace, O God, gives peace again. |
| 28/11/2018 |
Deeply regretted by his loving mother, sisters and brothers. Mary Jane Burton, 62 Kashmir Road Belfast. |
| 28/11/2018 |
None ever call on Thee in vain, |
| 30/12/2015 |
Private Thomas Burton was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on Friday 2nd July 1915 at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Thomas Burton enlisted in Belfast. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Private Thomas Burton has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial at Gallipoli in Turkey. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Mrs Burton, 62 Kashmir Road, Belfast, has been informed that her son, Private Thomas J Burton, was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 2nd Inst. The deceased's father was the late Mr J Burton, Curran, Benburb. |
| 30/12/2015 |
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| 30/12/2015 |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 29th July 1915 |
