STAPLETON, Phillip Augustus
| Service Number: | 3723 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1917, 3 years Cadets Age: 17 years and 5 months |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 54th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 31 July 1899 |
| Home Town: | Oakhampton, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Oakhampton School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Suicide, St. Marks Road, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 16 March 1939, aged 39 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-56. 27. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3723, 54th Infantry Battalion, 3 years Cadets Age: 17 years and 5 months | |
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| 31 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 3723, 54th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 3723, 54th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 21 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3723, 54th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", GSW left leg | |
| 12 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3723, 54th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The tragic story of a Digger of The Great War resting at Sandgate Cemetery, his Honour and Dignity to be restored.
83 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 16th March 1939, Private Phillip Augustus Stapleton, 54th Battalion (Reg No-3723), farm hand (Mr. H. Tuckey), and inquiry agent from Oakhampton, New South Wales and 27 Parramatta Road, Five Dock, N.S.W. (26.8.1936) and St. Marks Road, Randwick, N.S.W., father of one (Harold B), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 39. CATHOLIC 2-56. 27.
Born at Sydney, New South Wales on the 31st July 1899 to Phillip (Philip) A and Mary Stapleton nee Davidson; husband of Aileen Cora Stapleton nee Jackson (married 1921, Redfern, N.S.W., died 1945, Newtown, N.S.W.), Phillip enlisted June 1917 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Phillip was invalided home February 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 12th March 1919.
I have not located Mr. Stapleton’s name inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
The tragic circumstances of Phillip’s death were reported.
I located this Forgotten Digger’s unmarked grave September 2021, and placed a cross in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
I submitted an application to DVA October 2021 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip, and this was accepted November 2021.
I will post photos when official commemoration has been completed.
Lest We Forget.
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