STANLEY, Patrick William Anthony
| Service Number: | 22888 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 February 1939 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Seaman |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Nizam |
| Born: | Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 29 April 1919 |
| Home Town: | Bronte, Waverley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Blood poisoning and Pneumonia, Royal Naval Hospital Colombo Sri Lanka, 9 July 1944, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Liveramentu Cemetery, Colombo, Sri Lanka 1 H 4 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 21 Feb 1939: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Leading Seaman, 22888 | |
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| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement 22888 | |
| 9 Jul 1949: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Leading Seaman, 22888, HMAS Nizam |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Anthony Vine
Leading Supply Assistant Patrick (Bill) William Anthony Stanley 22888 RAN of HMAS Nizam,
Bill Stanley enlisted in the RAN pre-war and he was the husband of Muriel Stanley, nee Schrader. Bill was a native of Bronte NSW, and Muriel had grown up in Kempsey and Lismore NSW where her father was a Police Inspector.
The couple had married in March 1942 just two months before Bill posted to the heavy cruiser HMAS Australia. In late 1943 he would join the destroyer HMAS Nizam.
Bill passed away in the Royal Naval Hospital (RNH) Colombo on the 9th of July 1944 of blood poisoning and pneumonia.
In 1945 Muriel married William Joseph Barrett.
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Folk who knew Inspector and Mrs. Schrader at Kempsey will regret the bereavement suffered by their daughter Muriel (Mrs. Stanley), her husband Patrick William Stanley, L.S.A. (R.A.N.), having succumbed to pneumonia with complications, at the Naval Hospital, Colombo, on the 9th inst. But 25, he was a fine type of manhood and those privileged to meet him stress his kindly nature.
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