STACH, Vincent Alexander
| Service Number: | 898 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, Randwick, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Richmond, Victoria, Australia., 1891 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (V), Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Christian Brothers' College East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Died of wounds, At sea (HMT Derfflinger), 26 April 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, North Sydney Tramways Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 898, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Randwick, NSW | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 898, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 898, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Julius Stach, 3 Darlington Parade, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria
Prívate Vincent Alexander Stach, of Melbourne, was 23 years of age. He was educated at St. Saviour's College, Victoria, and entered into business in the sister State. Some time before the commencement of hostilities he came over to New South Wales, and was one of those who left here to go to the front with the First Australian Expeditionary Force. The deceased soldier was a son of Mr. Julius Stach, of the Education Department, Victoria, and a nephew of Mr. A. G. Stach, of the Lands Department, New South Wales.
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Vincent Alexander STACH VON GOLTZHEIM, (Service Number 898) was born in Richmond, Victoria, and was well known in Melbourne as an expert swimmer and all-round athlete. He was over six feet in height and strongly built. He was known by his full name when he came to Sydney and began working as a tram conductor in 1913, but on the outbreak of war he and his family minimised their German ancestry by shortening their surname to Stach.
Vincent enlisted at Randwick on 17th August 1914 and was one of the first Australians to proceed to the Dardanelles. He landed at Gallipoli in April 1915. He was mortally wounded on 25th or 26th April. He died of his wounds aboard the transport ship ‘Derfflinger’ on 26th April, aged 24. He was buried at sea between Gallipoli and Alexandria. He is remembered at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.
His younger brother Hugo, who with his parents’ consent enlisted as a Private aged 19 in June 1915, served at Gallipoli and in France but survived the war as a Lieutenant.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honoiur Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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