Albert STILES

STILES, Albert

    Service Number: 944
    Enlisted: 12 July 1915, Melbourne, Vic.
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 31st Infantry Battalion
    Born: Yarraville, Victoria, Australia, April 1895
    Home Town: Williamstown (Vic), Hobsons Bay, Victoria
    Schooling: Williamstown State School, Victoria, Australia
    Occupation: Engine-Driver
    Died: Killed in Action, France, 21 July 1916
    Cemetery: Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Bethune, Nord Pas de Calais
    Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery (Plot I, Row L, Grave No. 67), Fleurbaix Pas de Calais, France
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Williamstown Pictorial Honour Board
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    World War 1 Service

    12 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 944, 31st Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic.
    9 Nov 1915: Involvement Private, 944, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
    9 Nov 1915: Embarked Private, 944, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne

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    Biography contributed by Millie Curry

    Albert Stiles was born in 1896 Yarraville, Victoria. His parents were Benjamin and Martha Stiles. Stiles went to school in Williamstown State School in Victoria. He was 5'7 and weighed 138 lbs. He enrolled for the army on the 12th of July 1915 and was placed in the 31st Battalion, D Company. He then trained in Alexandria, Egypt and them moved to France (Western Front). He died in July the next year (1916), he was killled in action. Albert had no wife or children.

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