HACKWORTHY, Stanley Lloyd
| Service Number: | 2598 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Islington, New South Wales, Australia, 9 October 1897 |
| Home Town: | Islington, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Newcastle Technical College, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Morlancourt, France, 6 May 1918, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France Sandgate Cemetery Memorial, ANGLICAN 1-52. 47., Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nar Nar Goon Commercial Bank of Australia Limited WW1 Roll of Honour, St Mark's HR Islington, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2598, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2598, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2598, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Sydney | |
| 12 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2598, 35th Infantry Battalion, 1st Passchendaele, SW left arm and hand | |
| 27 Apr 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 6 May 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 2598, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2598 awm_unit: 35th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-05-06 |
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From Gary Mitchell
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
102 years ago today, on the 6th May 1918, Lance Corporal Stanley Lloyd Hackworthy, 35th Battalion, bank clerk (ledger keeper, Commercial Banking Company of Australia, Gosford, N.S.W.), from "Stan Horace", 15 Anderton Street, Islington, New South Wales, was killed in action at the Second Battle of Morlancourt, Northern France, age 20 years 7 months.
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1634168/
Born at Islington, New South Wales on the 9th October 1897 to Robert (died 1935, residing at the Broadway Hotel, Lambton Road, Broadmeadow, N.S.W.) and Alice Lavinia (died 1922) Hackworthy, Stanley enlisted August 1916 at Gosford, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123510077
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122217739
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133752680
Stanley was wounded in action on the 12.10.1917 (GSW left forearm and left hand, mild, 1st Battle of Passchendaele - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138748683), his name is now inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France, where 10,773 names of soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force with no known grave are inscribed who were killed between 1916, when Australian forces arrived in France and Belgium, and the end of the war.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140975297
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166856486
Stanley’s name is also inscribed on the Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Wickham (Hawkins Oval) Soldiers' Memorial, Book of Gold, Islington St. Mark's Anglican Church Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall located at Sandgate Cemetery. Name would be inscribed on the Newcastle Technical College Roll of Honour (not located).
https://issuu.com/gosfordcitylibrary/docs/hackworthy-stanley_lloyd
Stanley has been memorialised at his parent’s gravesite at Sandgate Cemetery (ANGLICAN 1-52. 47.)
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=456574#3
Lest We Forget.
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