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STUCHBURY, John Henry
| Service Number: | 3738 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Hackham, Adelaide, South Australia, 17 July 1966, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Collie High School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3738 | |
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| 29 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 3738, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 3738, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Borda, Fremantle | |
| 23 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3738, 28th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Fremantle on board HT Main | |
| 28 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3738, 28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
One of three brothers who served in WWI, Private John Henry Stuchbury (Service No:3738) enlisted in the AIF on 24 October 1916 with 89 Depot Coy, and was attached to 51st Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Plymouth on board HMAT A30 Borda on 29 June 1917. Private Stuchbury served on the Western Front with 51st and 28th Infantry Battalions, and embarked on 23 July 1919 from England for Fremantle on board HT Main. Private Stuchbury was attached to 28th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 28 October 1919.
Jack was born at Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1893, fourth of five children of Edmund Houghton Watts Stuchbury (b1860 in Kent, England) and Bessie Ellen Viney (b1866 in Adelaide, South Australia). Edmund and Bessie married in 1884 in Adelaide, and by the early 1890s were living with their children in Broken Hill, NSW where Edmund was a Labourer at Junction Mine. In 1901 the family moved to Bathurst, where Edmund was a Mechanical Engineer at Lloyd's Copper Mine, before settling in Collie by 1907. Edmund was one of the original shareholders of the Co Operative Colliery, a Lay Reader for the Anglican Church and member of the International Order of Foresters (Pride of the West Lodge - Collie). In the 1920s, Edmund suffered mental healt problems, and was found hanged in 1927.
Jack worked in Collie as a Miner, and served three years in the Militia before enlisting in the AIF in 1916. In 1917 in Guildford, he married his first wife Lilias May Thompson (b1898 in Fremantle, Western Australia) - they separated following his Discharge in 1919, and divorced in Perth in 1929. Jack worked in Collie as a Miner in the early 1920s, and in South Australia (Caltowie and Moorook) before returing to Western Australia in the early 1930s. Jack was working as a Miner at Blackboy Hill in Guildford by 1931, and in 1934 married his second wife Elizabeth Thom Gibb (b1901 in Glasgow, Scotland) - Elizabeth had immigrated in 1927, arriving in Albany on board the Mamilius, and was working as a Launderess at Guildford Grammar School when she and Jack married. Jack and Elizabeth settled in the Kalgoorlie region - at 946 Trans Line via Kanowna and Loongana Trans Line - where Jack worked as a Fettler. Jack and Elizabeth moved to South Australia in the 1940s. Elizabeth died in 1962 and Jack in 1966.
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