Stanley John (Jack) BARNARD

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BARNARD, Stanley John

Service Number:	1359
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
Born:	Emerald Hill, South Melbourne, Victoria, 10 October 1976
Home Town:	Brunswick, Moreland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Tram Conductor
Died:	Killed in Action, Wilmansrust, Wilmansrust, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 12 June 1901
Cemetery:	Old Middelburg Municipal Cemetery, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Brunswick Boer War Memorial

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 1359
1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 1359, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
15 Feb 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 1359, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, SS Orient.
12 Jun 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 1359, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, Killed in Action.

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Biography

5 Victorian Mounted Rifles

Rank - Private

Biography contributed by Maurice Kissane

Stanley John Barnard was known as Jack. He was born in Emerald Hill in South Melbourne in 1876. Jack was the son of James Spencer Barnard and Ellen Frances Morgan. He had four brothers. Jack worked as a Tram Conductor. He likely enlisted out of a sense of adventure.

Australia had been Federated and the reign of HM Queen Victoria was over. Times were a changing and Jack was stuck in Melbourne. However, he could ride and shoot. This was more exciting than being a Tram Conductor.

He made the cut for the fifth and final contigent raised by the Victorian Government. The Commonwealth Horse Battalions were yet to be raised when he was selected for 5VMR. He embarked from Melbourne on 15 Feb 1901. Jack was KIA at Wilmamsrust on 2 June 1901. PTE BARNARD, Stanley John [1359] H Co 5VMR was awarded his posthumous a QSA with five clasps.

5VMR Book 'A Matter of Honour' has his Boer War service on page 300.

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