STACEY, Eldred
| Service Number: | 5471 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 26 May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Boulder Public School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Tuberculosis (contracted in Somme trenches), Perth, Western Australia, 25 January 1925, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Boulder Roll of Honor, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 5471, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 5471, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Rebecca Comber-Short
Eldred was born the second eldest son of Henry Stacey and Jane Olds, a family of Cornish mining ancestry who met and married in Moonta, South Australia. The family were devout Christians (Methodist denomination).
Eldred had an older brother, Percy, and 5 younger sisters: Mabel, in Florence, Ada, Amy and Gertrude.
Eldred's father Henry was a miner and after marriage Jane and Henry moved to Charters Towers in Queensland where their first 3 children were born. They then relocated to Mount Magnet in WA where their youngest 4 daughters were born. They then moved to Boulder where the children attended school and grew to adulthood. The family later relocated to South Perth.
Eldred was popular and a good dancer. He worked as a labourer.
He enlisted for WW1 at Blackboy Hill (near Kalgoorlie) WA, and joined the 11th Battalion. Eldred fought in the trenches in France. He ultimately returned home to Australia injured He was wounded with shrapnel in his leg and TB which he contracted in the trenches.
Eldred lived for a time in Edward Millen House in Victoria Park in Perth for convalescence.
He was injured in a farming accident in Three Springs, WA, and hospitalised. He ultimately died from TB complications aged 30.
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