STONELL, Alfred Victor
| Service Number: | 749 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 May 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia, 24 August 1888 |
| Home Town: | Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Locomotive Workshops Worker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 22 August 1915, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Rockdale Municipal Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 10 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 749, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 749, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 749, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Alfred Victor STONELL (Service Number 749) was born on 24th August 1888 at Alexandria, Sydney.. He first worked as a temporary labourer at Eveleigh Loco Workshops from 21st February 1912. After a couple of months, he was designated as a boilermakers’ helper and became permanent in March 1914.
He enlisted at Liverpool on 10th May 1915. He described himself as a ‘Lubricator Maker’. He gave his father Jesse Richard Stonell, living in Kogarah, as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 18th Australian Infantry Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Ceramic’ at Sydney on 25th June 1915. His time in Egypt was brief. He proceeded to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli on 16th Augustt He was posted as missing in action on 22nd August 1915.
A Court of Enquiry, held at Tel-el-Kebir Egypt, on 21st January 1916 It determined that it was reasonable to suppose that he had been dead from that date. The only evidence which had been obtained was from Pte H J O’Meara (841) who had reported that:
‘At Hill 60 after the charge on the 22nd August [I] saw Stonell being carried to the rear on a stretcher. [I] went and looked at him and saw that he was already dead.’
Stonell’s grave, if he was ever buried, was not located after the war and he has no known grave. He is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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