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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.
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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;
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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.
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30/12/2015 From the Tyrone Courier dated 29th July 1915
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