WILKINSON, Stanley
| Service Number: | 464 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 11 September 1892 |
| Home Town: | Korumburra, South Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Mornington, Victoria, Australia, 31 May 1965, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Korumburra Kardella State School No 3196 |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 464, 8th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 25 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 464, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 464, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| 10 Jun 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 464, 8th Light Horse Regiment, embarked Port Said for England on board HT Ellenga | |
| 22 Nov 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 464, 8th Light Horse Regiment, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Aeneas |
Vietnam War Service
| 8 Feb 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 464, 8th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Stanley Wilkinson (Service No:464) enlisted in the AIF on 16 September 1914 and was attached to 8th Light Horse Regiment when he embarked from Melbourne on 25 February 1915, bound for Gallipoli Peninsula via Alexandria on board HMAT A16 Star of Victoria. Private Wilkinson served in Egypt with 8th Light Horse Regiment, attending the Imperial School of Instruction in Zeitoun in 1917 (Trooper, Signaller). On 10 June 1919 he embarked from Port Said for England on board HT Ellenga, and on 22 November 1919 embarked from England for Melbourne on board HT Aeneas. Private Wilkinson was attached to 8th Light Horse Regiment at Discharge on 8 February 1920.
Stan was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1892, fourth of eight children of Henry James Wilkinson (b1852 in Korumburra, Victoria) and Emma Roughead (b1864 in Chiltern, Victoria). Henry and Emma married in 1883 in Melbourne, Victoria and lived there and in Kardella via Korumburra. According to his Obituary (Trove; 1941) Henry started work at twelve years of age as a Road Haulier and boy driver between Melbourne and Mt Pleasant, carting sleepers for the main Gippsland railway. Henry and Emma settled in Kardella via Korumburra, where they raised their family and Henry worked as a Labourer.
Stan worked in Korumburra as a Labourer before enlisting in the AIF in 1914. Returning to Korumburra following his Discharge, he was working as a Labourer in 1922 when, in Mornington, he married Elsie Florence Garlick (b1890 at Schnapper Point (Mornington), Victoria). Stan and Elsie settled in Merbein, Mildura where Stan was a Labourer, returning in the early 1930s to Mornington, where they raised their family and Stan was a Labourer and Storeman. Stan died in 1965 and Elsie in 1974.