STALGIS, Gregory Francis
| Service Number: | 2898 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 July 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 14th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 8 May 1895 |
| Home Town: | Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Christian Brothers Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Fromelles, France, 20 July 1916, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery Plot I. Row D. Grave 9. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2898, Depot Battalion (AIF), Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2898, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2898, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 16 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 56th Infantry Battalion, T.O.S. from 20th Infantry Battalion | |
| 10 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 14th Machine Gun Company, T.O.S. from 56th Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 2898, 14th Machine Gun Company, Embarked Alexandria for B.E.F per H.M.T. "Canada" | |
| 25 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 2898, 14th Machine Gun Company, Disembarked Marseilles, France | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 2898, 14th Machine Gun Company, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 2898, 14th Machine Gun Company, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Killed In Action | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 2898, 14th Machine Gun Company, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2898 awm_unit: 14 Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-07-20 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Simon and Annie, of Newtown.
TAKEN AWAY FROM US MUCH TOO SOON AND WILL BE IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER.
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Gregory Francis STALGIS (Service Number 2898) was born in Newtown on 8th May 1895. He was educated by the Christian Brothers. He joined the NSW Government Railways. He was a junior porter in the Sydney District. He was working as a junior signalman at Ashfield when in July 1915 he was granted leave to enlist in the AIF at Liverpool. He had four years citizen military experience in the 34th Infantry (Enmore).
He was allotted to the 5th Reinforcements of the 20th Battalion. He was embarked for the Middle East in November 1915. In Egypt in March 1916, he was transferred to the 14th Brigade Machine Gun Company after training and promoted to Corporal. He was sent to France in June 1916.
On 20th July 1916 he was posted missing in action. His identity disc was handed to the British Embassy in Berne by the Red Cross in October. They had received it from the German authorities. Further information received from Germany indicated that he had died on 20th July 1916 as a prisoner of war. A military Court of Enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on that date. His remains were not located at that time, nor any other personal effects, although in September 1919 a parcel was received from Germany containing a letter and poem. This was forwarded, as his identity disc had been, to his family. A ‘final German death list’ received by the Red Cross in 1920 stated that he ‘fell 19/7/16 at Fromelles’.
Originally he was listed as having ‘no known grave’ and was commemorated at the VC Corner Australian Cemetery & Memorial, at Fromelles: in 2010 however his remains were finally identified by DNA analysis and other means among 250 burials made in mass graves by the Germans after the Battle of Fromelles. This was behind nearby Pheasant Wood. His re,ains were re-interred in the first new war cemetery built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in fifty years, the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honoiur Board.
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