Name Alexander Stewart Burton No. 384 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 641 Awards VC
Regiment Regiment 7th (Victoria) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth Kyneton, Victoria, Australia
Place Of Death Near Jacob's Trench, Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Turkey
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 15 October 1915
VC Presented Registered post to his father, Alfred Edward Burton on the 12 January 1916
Memorials
P Named on Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Named On Roll Of Honour, Panel 49, The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Named on War Memorial, Lions Park, Euroa, Victoria, Australia
Memorial plaque, on Gum Tree, Euroa, Victoria, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Burton Street, Watson, A.C.T. Australia
Brass memorial plaque, Longwood, Victoria, Australia
Burton Bridge, Seven Greens, Euroa, Victoria, Australia
By The Way…
He was the first posthumous VC to be awarded to an Australian serviceman
Oak tree dedicated to his memory on 16 December 1934 by Lord Huntingfield, Governor of Victoria on Avenue of Honour, Euroa, Victoria, Australia, due to road works c. 1984 another tree was planted outside Euroa Civic Hall
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
