Private
James
William
Clayton
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Ancestors 
Brother of
[private brother (1920s - unknown)], [private brother (1920s - unknown)], Kitchener Gordon Clayton, Francis Gordon Clayton, [private brother (1930s - unknown)], Bruce Clayton and Olga June Clayton
Died
at age 21
in Malaya, Singapore
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Biography
When James William Clayton enlisted in the Australian Army, he said he was born 5th May, 1920, at Bendigo, Victoria. He was son of James Clayton and Isabella Watson. [1]
Military Service. James gave his father, James William Clayton of McIvor Road, Bendigo, as his next-of-kin. James was single, of the Church of England faith, and worked as a driver. On his attestation, he owned up to eight months of Reformatory Prison. (1938 newspaper reports show he was 17 at the time of his attempting a serious criminal offence.)[2]
Death. Whilst on service in Malaya, James went missing. On 15th February, 1942, it was determined that his death was presumed to have happened on 8th February. He was 21 years old. He is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial as well as back home in Bendigo.
- Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic) Wednesday 29 July 1942 - Page 5
- LATEST LIST OF MISSING SOLDIERS
- VICTORIA
- MISSING
- ... Pte. J. W. Clayton, Ord., Bendigo East; ... [3]
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission [4]
- PRIVATE JAMES WILLIAMS CLAYTON
- Service Number: VX63907
- Australian Army Ordnance Corps A.I.F. 2/10 Ord.Wksp.
- Died 08 February 1942 Age 21 years old
- SINGAPORE MEMORIAL Column 140. Singapore
- Country of Service Australian
- Son of James William and Isabel Vera Clayton, of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
- World War Two Service
- Veteran Details
- Name CLAYTON, JAMES WILLIAM
- Service Australian Army
- Service Number VX63907
- Date of Birth 05 May 1920
- Place of Birth BENDIGO, VIC
- Date of Enlistment 24 Sep 1941
- Locality on Enlistment BENDIGO EAST, VIC
- Place of Enlistment ROYAL PARK, VIC
- Next of Kin CLAYTON, JAMES
- Date of Death 08 Feb 1942
- Rank Private
- Posting on Death 2/10 Ordnance Workshop Company
- Prisoner of War No
- Roll of Honour BENDIGO VIC
- Honours None for display [5]
Sources
- ↑ Birth registration not found in Victoria index.
- ↑ Service and Causality Record National Archives of Australia RECORDSEARCH: A6770 CLAYTON W J [digital file] CLAYTON JAMES WILLIAM : Service Number - VX63907 : Date of birth - 05 May 1920 : Place of birth - BENDIGO VIC : Place of enlistment - ROYAL PARK VIC : Next of Kin - CLAYTON JAMES
- ↑ Missing1942 'LATEST LIST OF MISSING SOLDIERS', Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), 29 July, p. 5. , viewed 25 Apr 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225566551
- ↑ Death Commonwealth War Graves Commission PRIVATE JAMES WILLIAMS CLAYTON
- ↑ Nominal Roll, World War Two Department of Veterans' Affairs CLAYTON, JAMES WILLIAM © Commonwealth of Australia 2012 This work is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal, non-commercial, educational and educational institutional use or use within your organisation. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, all other rights are reserved.
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