PAGE, Stephen
| Service Number: | 302 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 February 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, 8 December 1892 |
| Home Town: | Merriwa, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Shunter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 20 June 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Merriwa War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 302, 17th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 12 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 302, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 302, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney | |
| 20 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 302, 5th Machine Gun Company, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 302 awm_unit: 5th Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-06-20 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Stephen PAGE (Service Number 302) was born on 8th December 1892 at Muswellbrook. He first worked for the Traffic Branch of the NSW Government Railways as a gatekeeper at Muswellbrook from 12th December 1909. A year later he had progressed to junior porter in the Murrurundi District, and porter on his 21st birthday. He further progressed to become a shunter in November 1914.
e was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces on 12th February 1915.
Page enlisted at Liverpool on 15th February, giving his father living at Merriwa as his next of kin. He was llotted to the 17th Australian Infantry Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Themistocles’ at Sydney on 12th May 1915.
On 16th August Page proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Forces on Gallipoli. On 26th September he transferred to the Machine Gun Section.
On 7th December Page was hospitalised with mumps and conveyed to a convalescent depot at Mustapha, Egypt. On discharge he was transferred to the 5th Infantry Brigade Machine Gun Company at Moascar on 8th March 1916. A week later he proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in France, embarking at Alexandria and passing through Marseilles on 23rd March.
Page was killed in action on 20th June 1916. Driver S Woodbury (285) reported
‘He was killed at Bois Grenier on June 19th. He was giving instructions on a machine gun when a shell came over and killed him. The gun was blown up. Three men were killed by the shell and several others were wounded.’
L/Cpl J. Ryan (1633) thought the shall landed in a barn where the men were billeted, while Captain Hamilton offered the view that the machine gun instruction was going on in the billets when the shell landed.
Page was buried in Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois Grenier, 2¼ miles South of Armentières.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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