Stanley Richard (Stan ) TURNER

TURNER, Stanley Richard

Service Number: VX22886
Enlisted: 10 June 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
Born: London, England, 26 July 1905
Home Town: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Stevedore
Died: Melbourne, Victoria, 27 February 1974, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/231372003/richard-turner BDM Vic Registration No: 8492/1974
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World War 2 Service

10 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX22886, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion
24 Mar 1941: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX22886, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Stanley Richard Turner (Service No:VX22886) served in the Militia (Private; Service No:295602) with 5th Battalion from 18 November 1930 to 13 September 1931. Private Turner then served in the AIF from 10 June 1940 to 24 March 1941 with 2/22 Battalion - Discharged as Unfit for Service. In 1943 he volunteered for service with the Civil Construction Corps - Victoria (Service No:CV122375).

Stan was born in London, England in 1905, youngest of six children of Alfred (Alf) Woodhouse Turner (b1862 in London, England) and Florence Jessie Eley (b1869 in London, England). Alf (a Telegraph Clerk) and Florence married in 1888 in London, where they settled and raised their family. Alf worked as an Inn Potman, Plumber's Labourer and Sundries Warehouseman - Flornece died in 1907.

Stan worked in London as a Delivery Boy before immigrating in 1923, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Ormonde. He settled in Melbourne, where he worked as a Labourer and Stevedore and in 1940 married Ida Bessie Parsons (aka Bessie; b1919 in Melbourne, Victoria). Following his Discharge, Stan worked as Tractor Driver with the Civil Construction Corps before he and Bessie lived at Kangaroo Flat and Mt Evelyn, where Stan was a Farm Labourer. By 1949, the couple had separated and Stan was a Process Worker in Melbourne, where he met his second wife, Frieda Paulina Egan (nee Blucher; b1913 in Morwell, Victoria). Stan and Frieda married in 1963 in Melbourne, where Stan worked as a Labourer until his death in 1974. Frieda died in 1976.

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