STUART-SINCLAIR, John Francis
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 11 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, 2 November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 29 October 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot XXI, Row D, Grave No. 9. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Jul 1916: | Involvement 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Jul 1916: | Embarked 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Fremantle | |
| 1 Jan 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
John ‘Jack’ Francis Stuart-Sinclair was one of three brothers who died during WW1. His youngest brother 5207 Pte. Edward Burrows (Teddy) Stuart-Sinclair, 11th Battalion AIF, died of wounds a month after Jack on 27 November 1917, aged 19. Another younger brother, 3778 Act. Bmdr. Stanley Stuart-Sinclair, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade was killed in action on 8 August 1918, aged 28.
They were the sons of son of Jessie and the late Edward Stuart-Sinclair of Collie, Western Australia. The father, Edward had died during July 1917, family accounts said the stress of having all three of his boys at the front contributed to his death.
Jack was working in the small Western Australian town of Collie as an accountant for the Collie Co-operative Collieries when he enlisted. Standing almost 6-foot, 1-inch and weighing 156 pounds, he was quickly made a Second Lieutenant.
Just a few months prior to embarking Jack was married in Collie to Winifred Jean Bedlington.
By 1917, Jack had been promoted to Lieutenant and had taken on the duties of Quartermaster.
According to the Red Cross investigation into his death, he was in the pillbox (reinforced bunker) known as Ideal House, the Brigade Headquarters of the Australian troops at Broodseinde Ridge during the heavy fighting around Ypres, when an enemy shell struck, mortally wounding him in the thigh and hand. He died of his wounds the same day at the 17th Casualty Clearing Station. He was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, and his brother Stan was able to place a cross on his grave.
Jack's wife Winnie remarried in 1920.
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