DIVAL, Stanley Victor
| Service Numbers: | 14651, W40156 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Brighton, England, 27 January 1897 |
| Home Town: | Woodanilling, Woodanilling, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 18 April 1974, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Woodanilling War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 14651, Army Medical Corps (AIF) | |
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| 18 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 14651, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 14651, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Seang Bee, Fremantle | |
| 18 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 14651, 1st Field Ambulance, WiA France; GSW abdomen and elbow | |
| 16 Dec 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 14651, 1st Field Ambulance, embarked England for Fremantle on board HS Kanowna | |
| 1 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 14651, 1st Field Ambulance |
World War 2 Service
| 27 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , W40156 | |
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| 4 Sep 1947: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , W40156 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Warrant Officer I Stanley Victor Dival (Service Nos:14651; W40156) served in WWI as a Private, enlisting on 2 November 1915. Private Dival was attached to Army Medical Corps General Reinforcements on 18 July 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Plymouth on board HMAT A48 Seang Bee. On 19 September 1917 Private Dival was serving in France with 1st Field Ambulance when he was WiA - GSW (severe) abdomen and elbow - and evacuated to England where he was treated at Harefield and Wandsworth Hospitals. Private Dival embarked from England for Fremantle on 16 December 1917 on board HS Kanowna, and was admitted to Base Hospital Fremantle prior to Discharge on 1 August 1918. In WWII, Warrant Officer Dival served in the ACMF with 7 Australian Division Ordnance Depot from 29 May 1941 to 4 September 1947.
Stan was born in Brighton, England in 1897, eldest of four children of Edwin Dival (b1869 in Somerset, England) and Mary Parsons (b1868 in Sussex, England). Edwin (a Grocer's Assistant) and Mary (a Domestic Servant) married in 1894 in Sussex, where they lived until the late 1890s - Edwin was a Grocer's Assistant and Produce Merchant's Manager. The family was living in Hampshire - where Edwin was a Salesman and Manager - in 1911 when they immigrated, arriving in Fremantle, Western Australia on board the Omrah (Edwin had listed his occupation as Carpenter). Edwin and Mary settled in Woodanilling via Katanning where they raised their family and Edwin was a Shop Assistant, and served as a Justice of the Peace, a Member of the Hospital Board and President of the Road Board. Edwin and Mary retired to Perth in the mid 1930s.
Stan was working in Woodanilling as a Farm Hand when he enlisted in the AIF in 1915, and following his Discharge was a Disabled Veteran in 1921 when he married Ruth Emily Tanner (b1897 in Parkes, New South Wales) in Katanning. Stan and Ruth lived in Woodanilling, where they raised their family and Stan was a Disabled Veteran before moving to Perth in the mid 1930s. Stan was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1938, and was a Grocer in North Perth. He and Ruth separated in 1941, although's Stan's application for a Divorce in 1945 was not granted. He enlisted in the ACMF and was an Ordnance Branch Clerk with the Department of the Army, and a member of the RSL, local cricket club and Vice President of the WA Retail Grocers' Association. Ruth died in 1968 and Stan in 1974.
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