Service Details:

3 March	1915                      Blackboy Hill Training camp
9 June	1915                      Embarked from Fremantle
August	1915                      Embarked Egypt
10 Sept. – 12 Dec.	1915                      Gallipoli
29 September	1915                      Promoted Corporal
8 February	1916                      Reverted to Private (own choice)
21 March	1916                      France
6/7 June	1916                      Trench Raid
29 July – 27 Aug.	1916                      Pozieres (Sausage Valley)
4 August	1916                      Pozieres
6 September	1916                      Belgium
October	1916                      Ypres and Dernacourt
3 November	1916                      Battle of Ancres Heights & Fricourt
11 January	1917                      Sick
13 May	1917                      Rejoined battalion
May	1917                      Battle of Bullecourt (Hindenburg Line)
June	1917                      Bapaume
August	1917                      Cassel
18 September	1917                      Ypres
October	1917                      Broodseine & Passchendale
26 October	1917                      Battle of Passchendale (Ypres)
December	1917                      Red Lodge
7 April	1918                      Dernacourt
20 April	1918                      Ville Sur-Ancre
May	1918                      Morlancourt
27 June	1918                      Villers-Bretonneux
8 August	1918                      Battle of Amiens
20 August	1918                      Promoted Corporal
29 August	1918                      Somme
2 Sept	1918                      Mont St. Quentin
11 November	1918                      Armistice
5 March	1919                      Promoted T/Sergeant
3 September	1919                      Returned to Australia
17 December	1919                      Discharged

 

 

Biographical Details:

Dunlop (Billy) Tolerton was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1884 to Thomas and Catherine Tolerton.
Dunlop’s only and older sibling, John, moved to Perth in 1907 and married in 1908. Presumably Dunlop followed soon after and was a foreman when he enlisted in 1915.

Dunlop nominated his mother as Next of Kin and although she died in NZ in 1917 he did not amend that information.
Dunlop was promoted to Corporal soon after the 28th Battalion arrived at Gallipoli but in February, when back in Egypt, he requested that he revert back to private. It was another two years before he accepted promotion again.
It was as a Private that Dunlop took part in the June 6/7th Trench Raid.  He was one of Gill’s Scouts. Dunlop is No. 37 in the Black ANZACs’ group photograph.
Because he was fortunate to not be wounded, Dunlop’s Battle Honours include Gallipoli, Egypt, Pozieres, Bullecourt, Ypres, Passchendaele, Menin Road, Mont St Quentin, Amiens and the Hindenburg Line.
In December 1919 he was discharged from the AIF.
In 1923 Dunlop married Emily Rasmussen who died in 1928.  He remarried – Olive Campbell – in 1931. It is not known if Dunlop fathered any children.
Dunlop returned to farming before retiring to Perth
In 1968 Dunlop applied to the Repatriation Department for repatriation benefits. He died in 1972 aged 87.

The Queenslander 17th June 1916 p. 13