Corporal ALEXANDER STEWART BURTON
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
7th Bn.
Died Between 08 August 1915 and 09 August 1915
Age 21 years old
- Country of Service Australian
- Awards Victoria Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Alfred E. and Isabella Burton. Native of Kyneton, Victoria, Australia.
- Additional Citation note
An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 29328, dated 15th Oct., 1915, records the following:-"For most conspicuous bravery at Lone Pine trenches in the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 9th Aug., 1915. In the early morning the enemy made a determined counter-attack on the centre of the newly captured trench held by Lieutenant Tubb, Corporals Burton and Dunstan, and a few men. They advanced up a sap and blew in a sandbag barricade, leaving only one foot of it standing, but Lieutenant Tubb, with the two corporals, repulsed the enemy and rebuilt the barricade. Supported by strong bombing parties, the enemy twice again succeeded in blowing in the barricade, but on each occasion they were repulsed and the barricade rebuilt, although Lieutenant Tubb was wounded in the head and arm, and Corporal Burton was killed by a bomb while most gallantly building up the parapet under a hail of bombs."
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