STANSBIE, William Ernest
| Service Number: | 3246 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Millers Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Hyde Park, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Sydney Technical High School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Student of Chemistry |
| Died: | 23 May 1976, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales |
| Memorials: | Sydney Technical High School WW1 Roll Of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Aug 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3246, 3rd Australian General Hospital | |
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| 30 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3246, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3246, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sydney Technical High School
William Ernest Stansbie was born to Joseph Stansbie and Sarah Leahy in Millers Point, New South Wales, around the year 1896 (1). He grew up with his family at 8 Norman Street, Hyde Park (2). William enrolled at Sydney Technical High School in 1912 excelling in academic studies. This was shown by his high results in his second year of Sydney Tech in 1913 (3) with his high marks in English, Geography, and History allowing him to be placed second in his entire class. Before he enlisted for war, William was a student of Chemistry (4). William had light brown hair, three distinguishing markings on his left arm, and a small physique, standing 158 centimetres tall and weighing about 50 kilograms (5). On the 12th of August 1915 (6), William enlisted to the AIF at age 19 in Holworthy, New South Wales (7).
William left Sydney as a private, part of the 7th Reinforcement of the 19th Battalion aboard the HMAT A29 Suevic on the 20th of December, 1915 (8). He was wounded in action at freance on 28 July 1916 with a gun shot wound to his left forearm. He was hospitalised and sent to England to recover. He took leave in October 1916 but returned late from leave and was punished losing 7 days pay. He spent the remainder of the war in serving in depots in England and continued to get into trouble forfeiting more pay on several more occasions
William returned to Australia on the 6th of May 1919 (15) at the age of 23 years old. Following the war, William married Mabel Harper on the 12th of May 1920 (16) and in 1940, they had their son, Graham William Stansbie (17). William lived to the age of 80 and passed away on the 23rd of May, 1976, buried at Rookwood Cemeteries and Crematorium in New South Wales (18).
Endnotes:
Ancestry and NAA records
William Ernest Stansbie Google Doc
STHS Class 2E Term 2 image on google drive
2nd page of the NAA file about William Ernest Stansbie
4th page of the NAA file about William Ernest Stansbie
NAA record page 2 and William Ernest Stansbie Google Doc
NAA Records
NAA Records
William Ernest Stansbie Google Doc
Virtual War Memorial ( 7th Reinforcement 19th Battalion)
Virtual War Memorial ( 7th Reinforcement 19th Battalion)
Wikipedia (Battle of Broodseinde)
NAA Records
NAA Records Page 16
NAA Records Page 21
William Ernest Stansbie Google Doc
Ancestry and Stansbie Marriage Doc Google drive
Ancestry with information about his family including Mabel Harper
William Ernest Stansbie Google Doc
Sydney Technical Highschool Honour Board for WW1
Bibliography:
William Ernest Stansbie, Research on Google Drive
Virtual War Memorial, https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/359045
National Archives of Australia (Records), https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=8091983&isAv=N
Australia War Memorial, https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10956117
Australian War Memorial (Battle of Bullecourt), https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-battles-for-bullecourt
Wikipedia (Battle of Broodseinde), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Broodseinde
Ancestry (William Ernest Stansbie - Family) https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/william-ernest-stansbie-24-1cxk6hd?geo_a=r&geo_s=us&geo_t=us&geo_v=2.0.0&o_xid=62916&o_lid=62916&o_sch=Partners
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