James Albert Joseph Burton, Able Seaman, (P/JX 169636), was born in Hastings, Sussex, on January 26th 1919, the son of Henry Joseph Burton (1882-1923), a boatman and ex-Royal Naval Reserve serviceman, and Naomi May Burton, née Harvey (1886-1941). Naomi Burton died as the result of a fall a few months before the sinking of HMS Dunedin.