BULL, Stanley Gane
| Service Number: | 8621 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 13 April 1891 |
| Home Town: | Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tramway employee |
| Died: | Wounds, Belgium, 6 July 1916, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Maple Leaf Cemetery PLt 1, Row K, Grave - Rev.J. Hearne officiated, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton Newcastle District Tramways Roll of Honor, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Waratah Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 8621, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 8621, 5th Field Ambulance, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 8621, 5th Field Ambulance, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 6 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 8621, 1st Field Ambulance, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 8621 awm_unit: 1st Australian Field Ambulance awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-06 | |
| 6 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 8621, 1st Field Ambulance, Shell wound (head and chest) |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Stanley Gane BULL, (Service Number 8621) was born in Waratah in 1891, and in 1908 joined the Tramways in Newcastle, then operated purely by steam motors, as a motor cleaner. In July 1915 he enlisted at Liverpool in the AIF, on his second attempt to do so: the doctors had previously considered him unfit because of bad teeth.
At the end of 1915 he was sent with reinforcements of the Field Ambulance to Egypt, where he was afflicted with iritis, and then in March 1916 he proceeded from Egypt to the Western Front. He died of shell wounds to the head and chest received in action on 6 July 1916 and was buried at Maple Leaf Cemetery (so called because of the number of Canadians buried there), Le Romarier, three miles NNW of Armentieres.
(NAA B2455-3164568)
Submitted 12 May 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Herbert John and Harriet Bull of 66 Chin Chin Street, Islington, NSW previously of Bridge Street, Waratah, NSW
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
107 years ago today, on the 6th July 1916, Private Stanley Gane Bull, 1st Australian Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps (Reg No-8621), tramway employee (engine cleaner, Newcastle District Tramways), Died of Wounds (artillery shell wounds to head and chest) at the 1st Australian Field Ambulance, Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium, age 25 years 2 months.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 13th April 1891 to Herbert John (missing since 1909, died 10.1.1927, Parramatta, N.S.W., age 55) of South Grafton, N.S.W., and Harriet (Harriett) Bull nee Gane (died 23.9.1949, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 77) of 66 Chinchen Street, Islington, New South Wales and 9 Cintra Road, Waratah, N.S.W., Stan enlisted on the 17th July 1915 with the 5th Australian Field Ambulance at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on the 20th December 1915.
Admitted to hospital 19.1.1916 (iritis, severe).
Stan is resting at Maple Leaf Cemetery, Belgium. Row K Grave 9.
Mr. Bull’s name has been inscribed on the Book of Gold, Waratah-St Philip's Anglican Church Roll of Honour, Waratah Park Memorial Gates, Waratah Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Newcastle District Tramways Roll of Honour, NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919, Stockton Surf Club Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Stan’s mother mentioned that her son belonged to a Lodge, but unable to locate which one for a Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised gravesite of the Bull family in remembrance of Stan’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-07. 75.
Younger brother Herbert Allan (also known as Bertie, born ? ? 1895, Waratah, New South Wales, pottery worker (H. Dean & Son, Mayfield, N.S.W.) from Bridge Street, Waratah, New South Wales, enlisted 8.1.1916, 35th Battalion, Reg No-380, died of heart failure (emphysema, bronchopneumonia), age 23, resting at Tidworth Military Cemetery, United Kingdom. Plot C Grave 293A), memorialised same location.
Younger brother Wilfred Percy (referred to as Percy, born 10.10.1897, Teralba, New South Wales, labourer from Bridge Street, Waratah, New South Wales, enlisted 8.1.1916, 35th Battalion, Reg No-379, RTA 28.6.1919, died 13.6.1960, Port Macquarie, N.S.W., not officially commemorated) also served 1st A.I.F.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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