Stanley WATTERSON

WATTERSON, Stanley

Service Number: 3508
Enlisted: 7 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 6th Infantry Battalion
Born: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1879
Home Town: Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling: Camp Hill State School, Bendigo, Victoria
Occupation: Tailor
Died: Killed in Action, Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium, 4 October 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Menin Gate Memorial, 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)
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World War 1 Service

7 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3508, Melbourne, Victoria
11 Oct 1915: Involvement Private, 3508, 6th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
11 Oct 1915: Embarked Private, 3508, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne
23 Jul 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 6th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
14 Aug 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 6th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm
15 Apr 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 6th Infantry Battalion, The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line, Lagnicourt
4 May 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 6th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second)
20 Aug 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 6th Infantry Battalion, Menin Road
4 Oct 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 6th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Brother: 1385 Pte William WATTERSON, 32nd Bn, killed in action, 20 July 1916.

Biography contributed by John Edwards

Born Edward Thomas Watterson - enlisted as "Stanley"

Son of John Watterson and Margaret Jane (Fargher) Watterson of Bendigo, Victoria