QUINN, Stanley James
| Service Number: | 2018 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 January 1916, Enlisted at Goulburn, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Breadalbane, New South Wales, Australia, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fireman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 2 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, France Plot 111, Row 3, Grave 9 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Goulburn District Railway Employees Great War Honour Roll, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2018, 55th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Goulburn, NSW | |
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| 23 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 2018, 55th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Barambah embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 2018, 55th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Barambah, Sydney | |
| 23 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 35th Infantry Battalion, From 55th Battalion | |
| 1 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2018, 35th Infantry Battalion, First time. Remained on duty | |
| 7 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2018, 35th Infantry Battalion, Second occasion. Gassed | |
| 3 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2018, 35th Infantry Battalion, Third occasion. Wound to the thigh | |
| 2 Apr 1918: | Involvement Private, 2018, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2018 awm_unit: 35th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-04-02 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Next of kin given as his sister Eliza Ann Wade of Auburn Street, Goulburn, NSW
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal. Issued to his oldest brother
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Stanley QUINN, (Service Number 2018) was born at Breadalbane about May 1895. He was a casual cleaner in the Locomotive Branch of the NSW Railways at Goulburn.
Quinn enlisted at Goulburn on 30th January 1916. He claimed four years’ service in the Senior Cadets and two years’ in the Citizen Forces Infantry. His next of kin was named as his sister, Eliza Ann Wade, also living in Goulburn. He was initially allotted to the 3rd Reinforcements to the 55th Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Barambah’ at Sydney on 23rd June 1916 and reached Plymouth (England) on 25th August. A month later he was transferred to the 35th Battalion.
In October 1916 he was AWL for 24 hours, thus incurring three days’ Field Punishment No. 2 and the forfeiture of four days’ pay.
On 21st November 1916 he proceeded overseas to France through Southampton and was detached to duty with the 9th Field Company of Engineers from 18th January 1917 to 3rd February. Only two days later he was admitted to the 10th Australian Field Ambulance and then the No. 7 General Hospital with mumps. He re-joined the unit on 2nd March, only to be hospitalised again at the 11th Australian Field Ambulance on 23rd March with Bronchitis, not re-joining his unit until 6th April.
On 1st June 1917 he was wounded, but remained on duty. He was wounded on a second occasion six days later, this time with gas. This wound was more serious and required passage through the 9th Australian Field Ambulance, the 12th Field Ambulance and the 1st Australian General Hospital at Rouen. This was followed by time at the 2nd Convalescent Depot and then the 11th Convalescent Depot. Quinn did not re-join his unit until 19th September 1917.
He was again wounded, on a third occasion, only two weeks later with gunshot injuries to his right thigh. This time the sequence of medical units was the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, the 4th New Zealand Field Ambulance, the 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station and the 4th General Hospital. On 10th November 1917 Quinn was discharged to the No. 6 Convalescent Depot, and then to his unit on 29th November 1917.
He had leave in England from 29th January to 12th February 1918.
After his return to the 35th Battalion he was killed in action on 2nd April 1918. Staff Sergeant E P Gain MM (1426) stated in a letter to the Red Cross:
‘This man was killed by a shell with 4 Tommy soldiers at Villers Bretonneux, Somme, France, on the 2-4-18. It appears he was repairing a push bicycle at 2.30. p.m. on the date mentioned he was in a shop deserted by the civilians, at the time and was on duty. He was not cut about much but death must have been instantaneous. I had him buried on the Amiens side of Villers Bretonneux Railway Station. Chaplain Osborn, Chaplain of my Unit, officiating. He has a nice grave, in fact there are many of our boys buried there, I am sorry to say. He also had a cross erected and the side of the cemetery is in a garden so you see it is in a good position. I remember this case well.’
After the war in the rationalisation of cemeteries his remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Adelaide British Cemetery 2½ miles South of Corbie.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board