RAMAGE, Stanley
| Service Number: | 2794 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 August 1915, Enlisted at Holsworthy, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | London, England, 29 December 1887 |
| Home Town: | Gladesville, Hunters Hill, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal Elevator Attendant |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 28 July 1916, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gladesville Christ Church War Memorial Gates, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, The Rock War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2794, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Holsworthy, NSW | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 2794, 18th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 2794, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Sarah Ann Ramage of 'Ryalski', Tyrrell Street, Gladesville, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Stanley RAMAGE (Service Number 2794) was born on 29 December 1887 at London, England. He had labouring job for the Railways at the Pyrmont jetty from 12th May 1911. His first documented work was for only three days, for on 15 May he was ‘not required’. He was employed again on 9th June 1911. By 7th April 1913 he was working as a coal elevator attendant. On 17th June he was dismissed ‘for refusing to continue work’. He appealed this decision and was re-employed, but the pay lost while he was out of the service was seen as a penalty for his behaviour. He returned to work on 22nd July 1913. He was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces on 9th August 1915.
Ramage enlisted at Holdsworthy on 23rd August. He gave his ‘trade or calling’ on his Attestation Papers as ‘Elevator Attendant’. He was not married and thus gave his mother Sarah Ann as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 6th Reinforcements to the 18th Australian Infantry Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Euripides’ at Sydney on 2nd November 1915 and was taken on the strength of that unit on 5th February 1916. Six weeks later he embarked at Alexandria for passage through Marseilles, where he passed on 25th March, to join the British Expeditionary Forces in France on the Western Front.
He was killed in action in France on 28th July 1916. The only report of his death was made by Pte. A J Meers (2751) who stated:
‘I saw him killed by a shell at Pozières. He was practically blown to pieces. We were advancing and he was left. I can’t say if he was buried, but his disc was handed in. He came from Gladesville, Sydney.’
He probably wasn’t buried, and if he was the location was lost. He now has no known grave and is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial in France.
A pension of £2 per fortnight was granted to his mother, Sarah Ann Ramage, from 12 November 1916.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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