LORD, John Stone William
| Service Number: | 311 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 22 August 1914, Served for seven years in New South Wales Lancers, Sydney Squadron. |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Flying Corps (AFC) |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 December 1888 |
| Home Town: | Manly, Manly Vale, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Glebe Superior Public School & Sydney Technical College, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Mechanical engineer |
| Died: | Accidental Aeroplane crash, Winchester, England, 12 May 1918, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Hursley (All Saints) Church Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Manly War Memorial NSW, Sutherland WW1 Memorial Wall |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 311, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Served for seven years in New South Wales Lancers, Sydney Squadron. | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Corporal, 311, 1st Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Corporal, 311, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 12 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) | |
| 10 Mar 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) | |
| 12 May 1918: | Involvement Second Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: Australian Flying Corps awm_rank: Second Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1918-05-12 |
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The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK
Died on this date - 12th May.......John Stone William Lord was born in Sydney, NSW in 1889. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 22nd August. 1914 as a 25 year old Mechanical Engineer from Manly, NSW.
Corporal Lord embarked for Gallipoli Peninsula on 9th May with Reinforcements of 1st Light Horse Brigade, 1915. He was sent sick to Hospital at Alexandria in September, 1915 & rejoined his Unit on 20th October, 1915.
Corporal Lord was transferred from 1st Light Horse Regiment to R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps) on 8th November, 1916. He graduated as Flying Officer (Pilot) & was appointed Second Lieutenant in the A.I.F. on 10th March, 1918.
Second Lieutenant John Stone William Lord was flying R. E.8 (Royal Aircraft Factory) serial E.62 on 12th May, 1918 when it nose dived & crashed at Worthy Down, Winchester, Hampshire. He died around 11.30 am on 12th May, 1918 at Worthy Down, Winchester, Hampshire, England as a result of an aeroplane accident.
2nd Lt Lord and Lt Leslie George DIED IN SEPARATE ACCIDENTS FROM THE SAME AERODROME AROUND 4 HOURS APART.
Both Men were given a joint funeral on the same day & buried next to each other in All Saints Churchyard Extension Cemetery, Hursley, Hampshire, England.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below).
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/hursley---all-saints.ht…
Biography contributed by John Oakes
John Stone William LORD was born on 28th December 1888 in Sydney. He learned his trade as an apprentice with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in Pyrmont. He then worked for the NSW Government Railways as a fitter at Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops from May 1911. It was from that role that he was released to join the Expeditionary Forces on 21st August 1914, immediately after the war was declared.
He enlisted at Rosebery Park a couple of days later. He described himself as an ‘Engineer (Mechanical)’ and gave his mother living in Manly as his next of kin. His older brother, Alfred John Stone Lord, also a NSWGR employee had enlisted two days earlier. John claimed six month’s military service with the Australian Engineers, and that he was currently serving with the 7th Light Horse.
He was allotted to the No. 1 Light Horse Regiment and given the Service Number 311 He embarked on HMAT ‘Star of Victoria’ at Sydney on 20th October 1914. His brother travelled on a different ship and their paths diverged with Alfred incurring many disciplinary charges and some serious medical issues. He did survive the war.
John Lord reached Alexandria in December 1914. He embarked for the battlefield at Gallipoli on 9th May 1915. However, he became sick and returned to.Alexandria three weeks later. In December he joined the 1st Light Horse and in January 1916 this unit became part of the Western F Force in Egypt. Six months later he transferred to the Machine Gun Squadron at Romani.
In November 1916 Lord transferred to the Royal Flying Corps at Hod-el-Gield (Egypt). In January 1917 he left Egypt through Alexandria and reached Southampton (England) at the end of the month. Despite an AWL charge in February 1917 Lord underwent training as a pilot and was commissioned as a Flying Officer (Pilot) and 2nd Lieutenant in the AIF in March 1918. He was killed in a flying accident at Dorothy Down, Winchester, on 12th May 1918. No witnesses actually saw the accident. The aeroplane, an RE2, had been flown earlier without incident, and the machine was so wrecked when it crashed (and Lord mutilated) that no cause could be ascribed.
Lord was buried with full military honours at Hurley Village Cemetery, near Winchester. The report of the service includes many details, among them:
‘The funeral ceremony was carried out impressively and everything done to mark the respect in which the deceased Officer was held by his brother Officers, rank and file and those in the vicinity in which his duties had brought him into contact.’
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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