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Sapper Stanley Roy Barratt (Service No:14506) enlisted in the AIF on 17 June 1916, attending Signals School Broadmeadows before embarking from Melbourne for Basrah with 3/1 Australian Wireless Squadron on board RMS Malwa on 25 July 1916. Sapper Barratt served in the Middle East (mostly in present day Iran) and had a month's leave in India in April 1918. Sapper Barratt embarked from Calcutta for Melbourne on 22 March 1919 on board HT Janus and was Discharged on 27 May 1919.

Born in 1895 in Warracknabeal Victoria, Fred was third of four children of William Barratt (b1860 in Ascot, Victoria) and Annie Landt (b1872 in Hamilton, Victoria). William (a Farmer) and Annie married in 1890 in Warracknabeal where they settled and raised their family. William was a Farmer at Warracknabeal, Tarranyurk and Galaquil before retiring to Melbourne.

Fred joined the Commonwealth Public Service at fifteen years as age as a Telegraph Messenger in Beulah, progressing to Clerk by 1916 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Fred worked in Beulah as a Postal Assistant and was a Telegraphist in Melbourne in 1924 when he married Ruby Paxton (b1890 in Violet Town, Victoria). Fred and Ruby lived in Melbourne where Fred was a Telegraphist before promotion to Postmaster in the early 1930s. The family lived in Pyramid Hills, Healesville, Leongatha and Melbourne where Fred was Postmaster. Fred and Ruby retired to Seaford and then Frankston. Ruby died in 1975 and Fred in 1985.