Stuart HELLIER

HELLIER, Stuart

Service Number: 92
Enlisted: 17 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 1st Infantry Battalion
Born: Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1893
Home Town: Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales
Schooling: Public School
Occupation: Engine Driver
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 18 May 1915
Cemetery: Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli
Plot 1V, Row A, Grave 40 Rev. G. Green officiated
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

17 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 92, 1st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
18 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 92, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
18 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 92, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Address at the time of enlistment was George Street, Bathurst, NSW

Son of Thomas and Emilie W.M. Hellier of Kaihu, NZ

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Biography contributed by John Oakes

Stuart HELLIER (Service Number 92) was born in New Zealand in 1893. 

He stated his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘Engine Driver’. He had been apprenticed to an ironfounder in New Zealand for five years, and his father still lived there. He was one of the first contingent of 17 men who left Bathurst to join the AIF, leaving by the mail train on 13th August 1914.  ‘Much public enthusiasm was displayed, and the members of the contingent were given an enthusiastic send-off’. Bathurst Times.

He was allotted to the 1st Battalion and embarked from Sydney by the ‘Afric’ on 18th October 1914. He spent three weeks in hospital in Cairo with conjunctivitis in February 1915. Then he was sent to the Dardanelles. 

He was killed in action at Gallipoli on 18th May 1915, and buried in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, which is about 400 yards SE of Anzac Cove. he was aged 22.

- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.

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