GIBBS, Stanley Roy
| Service Number: | 561 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 March 1915, Cadets 3 years and Citizens forces 1.5 years |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 30 May 1896 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Hamilton Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | War related , Randwick Military Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 27 July 1938, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-03. 28. |
| Memorials: | Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 561, 20th Infantry Battalion, Cadets 3 years and Citizens forces 1.5 years | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 561, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 561, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 10 Jan 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 561, 20th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, Medically unfit (tachycardia & cardiac enlargement) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
86 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 29th July 1938, Private Stanley Roy Gibbs, 20th Battalion (Reg No-561), carpenter from 9 Lindsay Street, Hamilton, New South Wales and Main Road, Cardiff, N.S.W., father of three (Roy, Frank, Betty), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 42. METHODIST 4-03. 28.
Stan had died on the 27th July 1938 at the Randwick Military Hospital, N.S.W.
Born at Hamilton, New South Wales on the 30th May 1896 to Harry Edward, died 12.9.1947, Mater Hospital, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 82, and Caroline Gibbs, died 6.2.1940, 9 Lindsay Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 76; husband of Emily May Gibbs nee Hall, married 1.6.1917, Hamilton, N.S.W., from Steel Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 13.1.1933, Main Road, Cardiff, N.S.W., age 38, sleeping here, Stanley remarried to Rena Alice nee Plunkett, 1935, Wallsend, N.S.W., died 1971, St Leonards, Stan enlisted on the 24th March 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A35 Berrima on the 25th June 1915.
Admitted to hospital 15.5.1916 (disordered action of the heart).
Commenced return to Australia 24.6.1916.
Stan arrived home on the 8th August 1916, being discharged medically unfit (tachycardia & cardiac enlargement) on the 10th January 1917.
Mr. Gibbs’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Hamilton Methodist Church & Sunday School Roll of Honour, Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honor, Newcastle 39th Fortress Company, Australian Engineers' Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Stan’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 27-7-1938.
Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance.
Officially commemorated 1.9.1938 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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