STOPP, Eric John Carl
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gawler, South Australia, 25 March 1894 |
| Home Town: | Kent Town, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Pulteney Street Grammar School and St Peter's College |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Grand Masonic Lodge WW1 Honour Board (1), Balaklava Port Wakefield St Albans Church Roll of Honour, Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board, Port Wakefield Memorial Arch |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: |
Involvement
Lieutenant, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Lieutenant, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide | |
| 28 Jun 1918: | Discharged |
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Extract from “The Fighting 10th”, Adelaide, Webb & Son, 1936 by C.B.L. Lock; kindly supplied courtesy of the 10th Bn AIF Association Committee, April 2015.
Born 25 March 1894 at Gawler, South Australia.
Son of Rudolph (Richard) Charles Stopp, and Mother Janet Elizabeth (nee Shaw), who for several years was a resident engineer in the South Australian Railways at Port Wakefield.
He was educated at the Pulteney Street Grammar School and St Peter's College.
At the outbreak of the Great War was residing at Kent Town, being employed as a Clerk in the shipping department of D & W Murray, Ltd, of Gawler Place, Adelaide.
He was a compulsory trainee, and received his first commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 78th (Adelaide Rifles) Infantry on 28 February 1913, and held this commission at the time of joining the AIF.
He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in this regiment on 24 August 1914.
He was one of the first South Australian Officers to offer his services for overseas, and was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 10th Battalion at Morphettville on 19 August 1914, and posted to original A Company, but shortly after was transferred to original B Company.
He embarked with the original Battalion on HMAT A11 Ascanius on 20 October 1914, and proceeded to Egypt.
At Mena, Egypt, in January 1915, when his company merged with original H Company and became the new C Company, he was appointed a Platoon Commander in same, and promoted to rank of Lieutenant on 1 February 1915.
He subsequently embarked with the Battalion on the Ionian for the Dardanelles, and landed with his company from the Prince of Wales at the historic landing at Anzac on 25 April 1915.
On 17 August 1915 he was invalided seriously ill from the Peninsula, proceeding to the New Zealand Stationary Hospital at Port Said, and later re-embarked for Malta.
He subsequently returned to South Australia, and on 28 August 1916 re-embarked at the Outer Harbour on HMAT A68 Anchises as O.C. of the 20th reinforcements of the 10th Battalion.
He proceeded to England, and on 1 January 1917 was seconded for duty with the 3rd Training Battalion at Durrington, where he was appointed Messing Officer under Lieutenant-Colonel R B Jacob, the 2nd in Command being Captain J Hamilton.
He was later transferred to the 2nd Training Battalion under Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel John Newman, by whom he was appointed Training Adjutant.
He eventually returned to South Australia, his services with the AIF terminating on 28 June 1918.
He was appointed a Lieutenant in the 2nd/10th Infantry on 1 October 1918, and placed on the Unattached List on 1 January 1920.
On 11 April 1923, he was transferred to the Retired List, but on 3 may 1923 was listed on Reserve of Officers with rank of Lieutenant.
On 1 July 1918, he was appointed Private Secretary to his Excellency the Governor of Tasmania (Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate). He retained this appointment until 15 November 1919, when he secured the position of Secretary of the Hobart Stock Exchange, and also became owner of a racehorse.
In 1925 he was appointed Private Secretary and ADC with rank of Honorary Captain, to the Governor of Tasmania (Sir James O'Grady KCMG), and held this position until 1 February 1927, when he was appointed Private Secretary to Major-General V C M Sellheim, CB, CMG, Administrator and Chief Magistrate of Norfolk Island.
The Commonwealth Government subsequently appointed him Postmaster, Clerk and Assistant to the Registrar of the Magistrate's Court as and from 1 July 1929.
On 1 July 1930 he was further appointed Deputy Registrar of Lands, and on 18 December of the same year was appointed a Justice of the Peace and authorised to administer oaths and take affirmations for the purpose of any court within the territory of the island.
On 18 October 1930, and during the absence on leave of the Collector of Customs, he was appointed Collector of Customs, Registrar of Magistrate's Court, Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths, Registrar of Wills, Probate and Administration, and Curator of Intestate Estates.
He was appointed Registrar of Motor Cars on 18 October 1930 and on 19 January 1931, his appointment as Postmaster terminated, and he was reappointed Collector of Customs.
He was appointed Inspector of Plants and Fruits on 27 July 1933.
He was a member of St Peter's Collegiate Masonic Lodge, No.53.
May 1927 in Sydney he married Miss Eileen Chancellor, there being two sons of the union.
His married sister (Mrs C J Fulton) resided at 111 North Terrace, Kensington Gardens.
He was affectionately known to men of the 10th as “Stoppy”.
In 1935 he was residing at Kingston, Norfolk Island.