STUCHBURY, Cyril
| Service Numbers: | 721, W36589 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 September 1913 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters |
| Born: | Yatala Plains, South Australia, 10 July 1885 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Mount Hawthorn, Perth, Western Australia, 5 July 1968, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Collie High School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Sep 1913: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 721, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 721, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 721, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 12 Apr 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 721, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, embarked Alexandria for the Gallipoli Peninsula | |
| 23 Oct 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 721, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, embarked Southampton for Fremantle on board the Port Lyttleton | |
| 17 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 721, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , W36589 | |
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| 28 Aug 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , W36589 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Eldest of three brothers who served in WWI, Private Cyril Stucbury (Service No:721) enlisted in the AIF on 27 September 1914, and was attached to 16th Infantry Battalion on 22 December 1914 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Alexandria on board HMAT A20 Ceramic. Private Stuchbury served in Gallipoli, and was evacuated to hospital in Malta with Dysentry, before serving in France with 4th Infantry Brigade HQ (Special Duties). On 23 October October 1918, Private Stuchbury embarked from Southampton for Fremantle on board the Port Lyttleton, and was attached to 4th Infantry Brigade HQ at Discharge on 17 February 1919. In WWII, Private Stuchbury (Service No:W36589) served in the ACMF (appointed CooK) with 110 Perth Military Hospital from 5 August 1941 to 28 August 1946.
Cyril was born at Yatala Plains, South Australia in 1885, eldest of five children of Edmund Houghton Watts Stuchbury (b1860 in Kent, England) and Bessie Ellen Viney (b1866 in Adelaide, South Australia). Edmund was a Mechanical Engineer in Adelaide when he and Bessie married in 1884. In the early 1890s Edmund and Bessie moved their family to Broken Hill, where Edmund worked as a Mechanical Engineer. Following the death of their son Leonard in 1895, they moved their family to Collie, Western Australia where Edmund worked as a Mechanical Engineer and Miner. Edmund suffered mental health problems, and hanged himself in 1927.
Cyril worked as a Miner/Hewer in Collie, where he played football for the Collie Miners (and was given the nick name Pluto) and performed in local dramatic productions. He served two years in the Militia prior to enlisting in the AIF in 1914, and following his Dicharge, in 1920 in Perth married Kathleen (Polly) Mary Dawson (b1900 in Townsville, QLD). Cyril and Polly lived in Collie and Perth, where Cyril worked as a Miner and Telephone Linesman. In the mid 1930s they settled in Walpole, where they raised their family and Cyril was a Labourer. In 1941 when he enlisted in the ACMF, Cyril and Polly were livng in Perth where, Cyril stated in his Attestation Papers, that he worked as a Cook. The family settled in Mount Hawthorn in Perth in the late 1940s, and Cyril worked as a Telephone Linesman until retirement in 1954. Cyril died in 1968 and Polly in 1987.
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