DAWTREY, Stanley Gordon
| Service Number: | 1159 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 38th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Collingwood, Victoria, Australia , May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Collingwood, Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Clifton Hill State School No. 1360, Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Tailor |
| Died: | SWs back & chest , 4th Casualty Clearing Station, Heilly, Somme, France, 25 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, France Plot I. Row A. Grave No. 23 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1159, 38th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 1159, 38th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 1159, 38th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne |
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From How We Served
1159 Private Stanley Gordon Dawtrey
of Collingwood, Victoria had been employed as a tailor when he enlisted for War Service on the 11th of February 1916 at the age of 22.
Allocated to Headquarters Company of the 38th Battalion 1st AIF, Stanley was embarked for England for further training, departing Australia on the 20th of June 1916.
From England Stanley was sent to Northern France on the 22nd of November, and following which aside a brief period away from his Unit during February 1917 whilst he was treated for scabies, and a short time away from the field for Leave, his service in the trenches would be continuous.
With his Battalion Stanley would go on to serve in Belgium during the 'Third Battle of Ypres', and would come through this heavy fighting unscathed.
Whilst his Battalion was in the vicinity of the village of Heilly on the 24th of April 1918, Stanley was seriously wounded by multiple shrapnel pieces from a a gas shell which entered his back, and chest. Immediately evacuated for urgent medical treatment, Stanley was conveyed by stretcher to the 4th Casualty Clearing Station in an unconsious state.
There was little that could be done for him, and Stanley died of the wounds he had received the following day on the 25th of April (ANZAC Day). He was aged 25.
Private Stanley Dawtrey received a formal burial and was laid to rest within the Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, Amiens, Picardie, France.
Back home in Australia Stanley's supreme sacrifice made during 'The Great War' would go on to be privately commemorated at his family's collective burial site within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
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