Lancelot Lyndhurst STIDSTON

Badge Number: S13726, Sub Branch: Port Lincoln
S13726

STIDSTON, Lancelot Lyndhurst

Service Numbers: 1045, 51762, 1045, 51762, V145359
Enlisted: 9 September 1914, Enlisted at Morphettville
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements
Born: Mount Gambier, SA, 25 August 1893
Home Town: Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Bank Clerk
Died: Norwood, S.A., 20 November 1965, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
Derrick Gardens of Remembrance. Shrub bed 3, Position 007. Interred 9 November 1966 (cremated 22 November 1965). Internment right number 209352 which expires on 9 November 2016
Memorials: Adelaide Savings Bank of South Australia Honour Roll WW1, Blackwood War Memorial, Woodville Saint Margaret's Anglican Church Lych Gate
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World War 1 Service

9 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1045, 51762, Enlisted at Morphettville
20 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 1045, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide
20 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 1045, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
1 May 1918: Involvement Sergeant, 51762, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
1 May 1918: Embarked Sergeant, 51762, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, HMAT Euripides, Sydney

World War 2 Service

5 Jan 1942: Involvement Captain, V145359
5 Jan 1942: Enlisted Royal Park, VIC
5 Jan 1942: Enlisted V145359
26 Nov 1945: Discharged
26 Nov 1945: Discharged V145359

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Biography

28 April 1915 - Promoted to Corporal

14 July 1915 - To hospital with Bronchitis

19 July 1915 - In hospital in Cairo, Rheumatisism and Malaria

3 January 1916 - Embarked Ulyses for Australia

5 February 1916 - Disembarked at Melbourne

20 May 1916 - Discharged at 4 Military District as Medically Unfit (Tuberculosis) and attached to Pay Corp

4 May 1918 - Embarked HMAT Euripides at Sydney with new Service number 51762 with rank of Staff Sergeant

25 November 1919 - Returned to Australia on board Port Denison

4 December 1919 - Discharged

Medals: 1914-15 Star, Bitish War Medal, Victory Medal

15 October 1925 - Married Una Ellis in St Pauls Church, Adelaide, SA

12 June 1967 - His son Guy Stidston applies for the ANZAC Medal

 RSL Information

Residential addresses; 81 Milne Street, Prospect; 52 Barnard Street, North Adelaide; residential address at the time of deaath was Beulah Park

Also served in WWII Service number V517762

Rank - Captain

5 January 1942 - Enlisterd at Royal Park, Victoria

26 November 1945

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