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WITHERS, Stanley Lowan
| Service Number: | 212 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Nhill, Victoria, Australia, December 1890 |
| Home Town: | Brompton, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Brickmaker |
| Died: | 24 September 1974, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Hindmarsh Federated Brick, Tile & Pottery Industrial Union Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 212, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 212, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 212, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Stanley Lowan Withers was born in Nhill, Victoria in December 1890. He then lived in Keswick, where he enlisted in July 1915 for the Great War when he was 24.
According to his enlistment form he had fair hair and blue eyes, and a tattoo on his forearm.
He arrived at the Suez as a part of 32nd infantry battalion on the 18th of December 1915. After not even a month there, on the 4th of January 1916, he was involved in an accident in which another soldier's gun, which he picked up off the ground in the trenches, discharged and shot him in the knee and hand. He was then sent home, and arrived back in Adelaide on the 21st of April the same year. He was officially discharged from the military on the 19th of September 1916.
Aside from his brief time in the war, Stanley Withers was a brickmaker, and in 1912 married Ethel Aspden, making her Ethel Withers.
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