Stanley Stuart SINCLAIR

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SINCLAIR, Stanley Stuart

Service Number:	3778
Enlisted:	16 November 1914
Last Rank:	Bombardier
Last Unit:	3rd Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Heyfield, Victoria, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Collie, Collie, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stockman
Died:	Killed in action, France, 8 August 1918
Cemetery:	Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, France Plot III, Row S, Grave No. 2.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

16 Nov 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 3778, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade
22 Feb 1915:	Involvement Driver, 3778, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Itonus embarkation_ship_number: A50 public_note: ''
22 Feb 1915:	Embarked Driver, 3778, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Itonus, Fremantle
17 Dec 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Bombardier, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade
8 Aug 1918:	Involvement 3778, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3778 awm_unit: 3rd Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Acting Bombardier awm_died_date: 1918-08-08

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Stanley Stuart-Sinclair was third of three brothers from Collie, Western Australia to die during the Great War. His older brother, Lieutenant John Francis Stuart-Sinclair 28th Battalion AIF, died of wounds near Ypres on 29 October 1917, aged 28. His youngest brother 5207 Pte. Edward Burrows (Teddy) Stuart-Sinclair, 11th Battalion AIF, died of wounds a month after Jack on 27 November 1917, aged 19.

They were the sons of son of Jessie and the late Edward Stuart-Sinclair of Collie, Western Australia. The father, Edward had died during July 1917, family accounts said the stress of having all three of boys at the front contributed to his death.

Stanley was working as a stockman/station hand when he enlisted for service in November 1914. At enlistment, a clerical error, by exclusion of the hyphen in his surname, meant Stanley’s army records were incorrectly perpetuated as Sinclair.

He arrived in Egypt in April 1915 and he served at Gallipoli right through until the evacuation. In February 1917 he was wounded by the effects of shell shock, then suffered a severe gunshot wound to the right leg and groin in early June 1917. These injuries resulted in an evacuation to England where Stanley was admitted to the Brook War Hospital at Woolwich.

Stanley was promoted to Acting Bombardier in December 1917 and was subsequently wounded, for a third time, by mustard gas in 1918. He was killed in action on 8 August 1918, at the age of 26 years, and is buried in the Adelaide Military Cemetery, Villers Brettoneux, France.

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