Stanley (Stan) POWELL

POWELL, Stanley

Service Number: 6854
Enlisted: 29 August 1916
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 11th Infantry Battalion
Born: Bunbury, Western Australia, 9 June 1898
Home Town: Northam, Northam, Western Australia
Schooling: Perth Modern School
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Perth, Western Australia, 15 January 1927, aged 28 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
Memorials: Northam Memorial Hospital
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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Stan (Stanley Burbridge Powell) was the eldest of four children of Arthur Powell (b1870 in Boyanup WA) and Mary Stinton Ecclestone (b1872 in Picton Junction, WA). Arthur (a Blacksmith) and Mary married in 1897 in Bunbury WA. The family moved to Northam, WA in 1904, where Arthur was a Blacksmith.

Stan was a Clerk in Northam, WA when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916 - he had served with 87 Battalion (Subiaco - Leederville) for the previous eighteen months. Stan served as a Private (Service No:6854) with 11th Infantry battalion in France, and was Discharged in August 1919.

Returning to Northam, WA Stan worked as a Clerk and in the 1920s was an Accountant in Gerladton, living at the Geraldton Hotel. He died in 1927.

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