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HENDERSON, Ray Stanley
| Service Number: | 2101 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 39th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Caltowie, South Australia, Australia, July 1893 |
| Home Town: | Caltowie, Northern Areas, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Memorials: | Caltowie District WW1 Roll of Honour, Jamestown Methodist Church of Caltowie WW1 Honour Roll, Stone Hut Roll of Honour WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2101, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 28 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2101, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2101, 39th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge, GSW chest and left shoulder | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 2101, 39th Infantry Battalion |
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HENDERSON, Ray Stanley
Ray Stanley Henderson also known as Roy Stanley was born in Caltowie, South Australia. It is recorded in Henderson’s Enlistment documents that he had blue eyes, fair complexion and fair hair. Henderson was a private who enlisted into the 43rd Infantry battalion and was not trained beforehand. He fought in the First World War on the Western Front. The 43rd battalion was raised on the 7th of March in 1916 and grew bigger thanks to volunteers. It was comanded by John Farrell, Charles Philip Butler and Gordon Douglas Dixon. Henderson was given the service number 2101 – used to identify a soldier in a battalion. Henderson was single when he enlisted on the 6th of April 1916 and was aged 22. He chose his father as his next of kin who he was most close to in his family aside from his brother – who will be contacted when in an emergency – in his family he had a father (HENDERSON, James Samuel) and a brother who was a sergeant in the 9th light horse regiment that returned to Australia (HENDERSON, Howard Hyla (/explore/people/283885)). They were the only family members recorded on his Enlistment forms. Henderson’s religion was Methodist, before he enlisted he worked on a farm and was six foot and two inches along with one hundred and seventy-two pounds.
(The 43rd battalion)
Henderson enlisted into the 43rd battalion on the 6th of April 1916 in Jamestown, South Australia along with 800-900 others to follow his brother who joined a light horse regiment in 1915.
Henderson received firearm practice in Glenelg and Henley in which he excelled in. In 1916 the HMAT A68 ANCHIES (ship) embarked from Adelaide to Egypt briefly before leaving for England for more training on July.
(HMAT A68 ANCHIES)
On 28th August 1916 he embarked to France for World War 1. On the 4th June 1917 Henderson was highly commended by a leading commander for “gallant conduct on the occasion of raid on the enemy trenches”. On 15th June 1917 he was promoted to Lance Corporal. Henderson was bady wounded at Broodeseinde Ridge on 4th October 1917 in a left shoulder and chest. After months in the hospital Henderson re-joined the 39th battalion and proceeded to France aboard the S’hampton ship from a camp at Longbridge Deverill, UK. After healing and being put back on the field Henderson fought for five more months before being promoted to corporal on the 1st July 1918.
Henderson continued as a corporal of the 39th battalion until the 27th June 1919 in which he returned to Australia as World War 1 had ended.
Henderson’s name is found on the memorial; Stone Hut roll of honour located on Main Road, Stone Hut in South Australia. During the First World War Henderson had obtained the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. Henderson had been fighting in the First World War for four years. It is unknown where his gravestone lies and date of death.