Stanley Roy SWIFT

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Service Number:	139
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	6th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Newstead, Victoria, Australia, 16 October 1893
Home Town:	Collingwood, Yarra, Victoria
Schooling:	Gold Street, State School, Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 25 April 1915, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Remembered on Panel 27, Lone Pine Cemetery & Memorial, Gallipoli, Çanakkale, Turkey, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 139, 6th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne
19 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 139, 6th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 139, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
5 Apr 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 139, 6th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Alexandria, Egypt, per S.S. Galeka, for Mudros Harbour, pending Gallipoli landings.
25 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 139, 6th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Stanley and Private Hacking with Sergeant Robert MacGregor Gillespie went out to cover the advance of a firing line, carried out under heavy fire and at close quarters to the enemy. Gillespie went ahead and whistled for the other two to advance up the right and left flanks, which happened several times. When Gillespie's whistle did not come, Swift went forward in the long grass to find him. Neither returned. Gillespie’s body was later located opposite Steele’s Post, Stanley Swift’s body was never located.

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Son of Henry and Maud (later known as Maud Berry) Swift of 34 Hawksburn Road, Hawksburn, Victoria. Brother of Lorna Nyra Pinckney nee Swift

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal