HERBERT, Stanley William
| Service Numbers: | 7N, 7 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 March 1915, 3 years RANR |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 7th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 22 October 1895 |
| Home Town: | Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Cooks Hill Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Engine cleaner - loco fireman (Hamilton Loco sheds), |
| Died: | Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 29 June 1974, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-49. 66. |
| Memorials: | Cook's Hill Superior Public School |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7N, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, 3 years RANR | |
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| 4 Jun 1915: | Involvement 7, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Macquarie embarkation_ship_number: A39 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Jun 1915: | Embarked 7, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, HMAT Port Macquarie, Melbourne | |
| 20 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 7N, 7th Field Company Engineers, 2nd MD, Medically unfit (pleurisy) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
50 years ago today, on the 1st July 1974, Bugler and Sapper William Stanley Herbert, 8th Australian Field Company Engineers (Reg No-7N), engine cleaner and loco fireman (Hamilton Loco sheds), from 294 Darby Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales and Barber Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1932) and Karuah, N.S.W. (1940) and 24 Tighe Street, Waratah, N.S.W. (1967), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 78. ANGLICAN 1-49. 66.
Born at Merewether, New South Wales on the 22nd October 1895 as Stanley William to William, died 12.11.1940, "Mill-Yeat", George Street, Singleton, N.S.W., age 74, buried at ANGLICAN 1-49. 64, and Elizabeth Herbert nee Host, died 21.4.1948, Hurstville, N.S.W., age?, mother of 8, sleeping at ANGLICAN 1-49. 66; husband of Ethel Herbert nee Errington, married 1920, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 3.12.1975, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 81, sleeping at ANGLICAN 1-14. 117, William enlisted on the 8th March 1915 with the 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train at Melbourne, Victoria.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board A39 Port Macquarie on the 4th June 1915.
Reenlisted-30.3.1917, Kubri, Egypt.
Admitted to hospital 6.8.1917 (malaria), 5.11.1917 (pleurisy & pneumonia).
William arrived home on the 9th May 1919, being discharged on the 20th July 1919.
Mr. Herbert’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Hamilton Loco Employees Roll of Honour, Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton-Rose of Hamilton Lodge, G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour andThe Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at William’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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