Bruce Alan Seaton

  General Notes:

Merle Wong notes:
Electoral Roll: - 1930, 1936 - Gatton Street, Cairns, Qld. - Stonemason.

Service Record
Name SEATON, BRUCE ALAN
Service Australian Army
Service Number Q116699
Date of Birth 8 Aug 1905
Place of Birth CAIRNS, QLD
Date of Enlistment 14 May 1942
Locality on Enlistment CAIRNS, QLD
Place of Enlistment CAIRNS, QLD
Next of Kin SEATON, FLORENCE
Date of Discharge 1 Dec 1944
Rank Private
Posting at Discharge 15 GARRISON BATTALION
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No

Cairns Post (Qld.) Thursday 19 September 1912. Page 4.
NEARLY DROWNED
On Tuesday afternoon a lad named Bruce Allen Seaton, aged seven years, and a son of Captain M.
Campbell, of the Cecil Rhodes, were standing on a pontoon between the new wharf and Howard Smith's wharf, throwing out a stone fastened on a piece of string, when Seaton lost his balance and fell in.
Captain Minehane, Mr. Mitchell (the second officer), and a steward named Harry Owens were attracted by the boy Campbell, and Owens immediately (the next two lines are impossible to read)little, fellow, who had, then gone under twice. On being brought to the bank young Seaton was very sick, but was soon brought round, his only trouble being his hat, which was floating near by, as he did not care to go home without it. He was then taken home in a cab, and now feels little worse from his exciting adventure.

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. My connection to Paddy Byrne is as follows:

Paddy Byrne married Maureen Seaton
Her father was Bruce Seaton (1905) who married Alberta Hassett (1915)
Her father was James Hassett (1876) who married Helen Taylor (1886)
Her father was John Taylor (1862) who married Edith Walter (1865)
Her father was John Walter (1831) who married Ellen Hiscock (1836)
Her father was William Hiscock (1810) & he also had Harry Hiscock (c1846)
He had Frank Hiscock (1873) who married Emily Wallis (1875)
Her father was William Wallis (1849) who married Victorine Groube (1851)
Her father was Rev Horatio Groube (1814) & he also had George Groube (1847)
He had Edith Groube (1880) who married Percy Howe (1866)
His father was Robert Howe (1833)
His father was Frederick Howe (1805)
His father was James Howe (1777)
His father was George Howe (1741) & he also had Sarah Howe (1775)
She had Alexander Moss (1811)
She had James Moss (1846)
He had Laura Kershaw Waldock or Moss (1864)
She had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
They had me- Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• Birth Certificate: (1905/C001455).

Bruce married Alberta Mabel (Billie) Hassett, daughter of James Frederick Hassett and Helen Mary Taylor. (Alberta Mabel (Billie) Hassett was born on 21 Dec 1915 in Omeo, Victoria Australia.)