LIMBERT, Stirling Bailey
| Service Numbers: | 857, 720 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 January 1915, at Keswick |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Naracoorte, South Australia, Australia, 12 May 1897 |
| Home Town: | Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Queensland, 7 July 1976, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Kurralta Park Employees of the Adelaide Electric Supply Company Limited Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 857, 27th Infantry Battalion, at Keswick | |
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| 31 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 857, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide | |
| 31 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 857, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Jan 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 720, 27th Infantry Battalion, Reason for discharge: Was medically unfit to continue fighting | |
| 25 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 720, 15th Machine Gun Company | |
| 7 Jul 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 720, 15th Machine Gun Company | |
| 15 Feb 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 720, 15th Machine Gun Company |
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Stirling Bailey Limbert was born in the year of 1897 in Naracoorte. He lived with his mother, Mrs. Sophie Lucinda Limbert, and his father, Charles Edward Limbert. Limbert's father had two sons prior to Stirling Bailey's birth and a son and two daughters after his birth. The Limbert family lived in 9 Goodenough street located in Mile End, South Australia. Limbert was a clerk and a Protestant.
He first enlisted in February of 1915 in Keswick, at the age of 18 years and 9 months. First enlisted as a private, which was among one of the lowest ranks in the war, that would fight in some of the worst conditions possible. Limbert would first embark for the war on the JMAT A2, on the 31st of May, 1915. He was sent to Egypt where it was discovered he was not medcially fit enough to fight. He left Egypt to return to Australia in early September and was discharged from the war on the 7th of January, 1916, due to being medically unfit to continue to defend his country.
Limbert then re-enlisted to the first World War on the 25th of January, 1917, in Mitcham, at the age of 21. He arrived in camp on February 1st, then embarked for the war on the 7th of July. Stirling Bailey was to be sent to the 15th Machine Gun Coy. But after some months of trianing in England his chronic rheumatism was too bad to send him to the front. He returned to Australia on the 15th of February, in 1918.
After his time in the war, Limbert fell in love and got married to his wife Muriel Martha in Adelaide in 1920. They then had a daughter in 1921 named Nancy Needham Limbert, and a son in 1924 named Stirling Needham Limbert. Stirling Bailey Limbert then died on the 7th of July, 1976 at the age of 79. He was cremated at the Albany Creek Crematorium, located in Queensland.
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