BOOTH, Stanley Charles
| Service Number: | NX59568 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 14 April 1918 |
| Home Town: | Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Wollongong Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Steel worker |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 6 June 2005, aged 87 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lakeside Memorial Park Kanahooka, New South Wales |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 17 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX59568 | |
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| 25 Jan 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX59568 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kerrie Borthwick
Stanley was the oldest son of 8 children. Born to Margaret Cochrane and Charles Oliver Rueben Booth.
He was listed as missing presumed dead during the war. His mother never believed this and would send food and messages from home in Arnotts Biscuit tins. These would be returned. After many years a letter came from Stan in Japan he had been a POW in Changi. His love for his newest baby sister Lorna (my mother) carried him through. Two when he left and nine when he came home holding the hand of four year old Janice he didn't know about. He spent many months in Concord Repatriation Hospital gaining weight and learning to eat again.
He never married and lived his life out by the sea in Wollongong. He was an avid orchid grower after his time in Singapore.
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