John Watson STONE

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Service Number:	6316
Enlisted:	10 February 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Pooncarie, New South Wales, Australia, 1882
Home Town:	Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales
Schooling:	Mathoura Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 3 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Mount Hawthorn War Memorial

10 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6316, 1st Infantry Battalion
9 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 6316, 1st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
9 Sep 1916:	Embarked Private, 6316, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney

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His brothers, 7146 Pte Annesley Watson Stone, 13th Battalion AIF returned to Australia, 18 July 1919.

217 Company Sergeant Major James Henry Stone MSM, 6th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company, returned to Australia, 1 July 1919.