8th Infantry Battalion
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Stepen William Burton (SN 2158) was born at Buln Buln in Gippsland and was a 25 year old bank teller when he enlisted in Melbourne on March 5th 1915. Assigned to the 8th Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Wandilla on June 17th and joined his unit at Gallipoli just prior to the August battle of Lone Pine. In November he was evacuated to hospital on Lemnos and listed as ‘dangerously ill, enteric fever’. He was transferred to hospital in Egypt where it was determined he should return to Australia. He left Cairo aboard the Nestor disembarking at Melbourne on March 13th 1916. He was discharged ‘medically unfit, enteric’ on August 17th 1916.
