STUCHBURY, Herbert Houghton Henry
| Service Numbers: | 2103, W237453 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 23 February 1895 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Collie, Western Australia, 7 July 1961, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2103, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 Oct 1915: | Embarked 2103, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Fremantle | |
| 1 Oct 1915: | Involvement 2103, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2103, 28th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2103, 28th Infantry Battalion, France: GSW arm | |
| 10 Jun 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 2103, 28th Infantry Battalion, France; GSW knee | |
| 23 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2103, 28th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Fremantle on board HT Main | |
| 19 Dec 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2103, 28th Infantry Battalion |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Mar 1940: | Enlisted Northam, WA | |
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| 5 Mar 1940: | Involvement W237453 | |
| 2 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Perth, WA | |
| 26 May 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , W237453 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Captain Herbert Houghton Henry Stuchbury enlisted in the AIF as a Private (Service No:2103) on 21 June 1915, and was attached to 28th Infantry Battalion on 1 October 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Suez on board HMAT A20 Hororata. Private Stuchbury embarked from Alexandria for Marseiiles on 16 March 1916, and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 3 May 1916. WiA on two occasions in France (1916: GSW arm and 1918: GSW knee), Sergeant Stuchbury embarked from England for Fremantle on 23 July 1919 on board HT Main, and was attached to 28th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 19 December 1919. He was appointed Lieutenant with the Australian Military Cadet Corps in 1920, and in 1939 was attached to 44th Battalion. In WWII Captain Stuchbury served in the ACMF, enlisting as a Lieutenant with 44th Battalion on 5 March 1940 (Service Nos:W29266/W237453), and serving as Captain and Camp Staff Officer Rottnest. Captain Stuchbury was attached to 10 Garrison Battalion at Discharge on 26 May 1945.
Bert was born at Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1895, youngest of five children of Edmund Houghton Watts Stuchbury (b1860 in Kent, England) and Bessie Ellen Viney (b1866 in Adelaide, South Australia). Edmund and Bessie married in Adelaide in 1884 and moved to Broken Hill NSW in the early 1890s. Edmund worked as a Labourer and Miner at Junction Mine before moving his family to Barruga via Bathurst in 1901, where he was a Mechanicl Engineer tasked with construction of a new concentration plant at Lloyd's Copper Mine. By 1906 Edmund and Bessie had settled in Collie, Western Australia where they raised their family and Edmund worked as a Miner and Mechanical Engineer. He was one of the original shareholders in the Co Operative Colliery, served as a Lay Reader for the Anglican Church, and was a member of the Independent Order of Foresters (Pride of the West Lodge Collie). Edmund suffered mental health issues in the 1920s, and was found hanged in 1927.
Bert worked as a Miner in Collie prior to enlisting in the AIF, and in 1915 at Midland Junction married his first wife Ivy Laurel Gibson (b1895 in Adelaide, South Australia). Following his Discharge from the AIF, Bert and Ivy settled in Collie, where they raised their family and Bert worked in the mines - as a Miner and Weighman/Surface Foreman. In February 1944, eldest son Herbert Ronald (a Pilot in the RAAF) was KiA, and in April that year Ivy died. Following Discharge, Bert returned to Collie where he worked as a Miner. In 1951 in Perth, Bert married his second wife Alma (Lillie) Eloise O'Loughlin (nee Moore; b1904 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia). Bert and Lillie settled in Bunbury, where Bert died in 1961. Lillie died in 1985.
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