OGILVIE, Stanley
| Service Number: | 1356 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Walhalla, Vic., 1895 |
| Home Town: | Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | 1966, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 21 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 1356, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Hawkes Bay embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 21 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 1356, 8th Light Horse Regiment, SS Hawkes Bay, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Isabel Ogilvie's brother Stanley was 20 years and 10 months old when he signed his attestation on 26 June 1915. He stated that he was a butcher by trade and that he had previously been rejected for active service because of his height. (His medical examination gave it as 5'3".) His father being dead, he named as next of kin his mother Catherine then living at 822 Drummond Street, North Carlton and attached her permission for him to enlist.Stanley (the only first name he gave on his attestation paper) embarked on the Hawkes Bay in October 1915, attached to the 11th reinforcements of the 8th Light Horse and appears to have been stationed in Egypt for the whole period of his war service. He was not wounded but was twice hospitalised with venereal disease, the second occasion being for a period of 79 days in late 1918. His only disciplinary offence occurred in April 1919 when he was deprived of one day's pay for being in town without a pass. He returned to Australia on the Malta in August 1919 and was discharged at the end of December.
Stanley worked as a butcher for the rest of his life and does not appear to have married. He lived for a time with other family members at Fenwick Street and then for many years at 249 Station Street, Carlton. By 1942 he had moved to Edwardes Street, Reservoir and the 1954 electoral roll shows him as having then been joined by three others with his surname, presumably relatives. Stanley later moved to another Reservoir address and died in that suburb in 1966 at the age of 72.
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