CURTIS, Stanley
| Service Number: | 2311 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 August 1918, 2 years senior Cadets 3 years 16th infantry |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia , 12 September 1894 |
| Home Town: | Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheeler |
| Died: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 20 January 1968, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CONGREGATIONAL-4CSW. 47. |
| Memorials: | Newcastle Lambton I.O.R. No. 73 John H Wise Tent Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2311, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 11 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2311, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 26 Aug 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2311, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2 years senior Cadets 3 years 16th infantry | |
| 28 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2311, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, Trench feet - both feet amputated. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
54 years ago today, on the 23rd January 1968, Private Stanley Curtis, 30th Battalion (Reg No-2311), wheeler from Fitzroy Road, Lambton, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 73. CONGREGATIONAL-4CSW. 47.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 12th September 1894 to William and Kitty (Kate) Miriam Curtis; husband of Hettie Florence Curtis nee Brown (married 27.5.1918 at The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Southall, Middlesex, England, died 7.1.1967, not 1966, sleeping here), Stanley enlisted August 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 17.4.1916 (mumps).
Evacuated to hospital 30.11.1916 (trench feet).
Amputation of both feet - 20.1.1917.
Stanley was invalided home September 1918, being discharged medically unfit (both feet amputated) on the 28th February 1919.
Mr. Curtis’s name has been inscribed on the Lambton Park Citizens' Memorial Gates, Lambton and New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor, New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour, Lambton Rechabites (John Wise Tent) No. 73 Roll of Honor (unveiled on the 1st November 1920, 9 names inscribed, 3 Fallen) and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have place poppies at Stanley’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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