STIRLING, James Phillips
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Cerberus (Shore) |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 1 July 1894 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Seaman |
| Died: | Collie, Western Australia, 29 March 1955, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Lieutenant, HMAS Cerberus (Shore) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
James was the youngest of five children of James Phillips Stirling Snr (born 1857 in Glasgow, Scotland) and Catherine (Kate) Douglas Rodgers (born 1861 in Williamstown, NSW. James Snr was a Seaman when he married Kate in 1879 in Newcastle, NSW. He continued working as a Seaman - Mate on board the Especulador and Edwin Bassett - before becoming Captain of the Grecian Bend - a schooner of which he was half owner. James Snr was drowned at sea in 1894 when the schooner - setting out from the Clarence River with a cargo of timber bound for Napier, New Zealand, foundered in a storm and sank. Kate remained in Newcastle and raised her family.
James Jnr was eighteen years of age when he enlisted with the RAN Brigade (Newcastle Division) in 1912. He served with the RAN (Midshipan, Engineer, Lieutenant and Lieutenant Commander) until June 1924. Brother Robert McBride Stirling was also a Mariner.
In 1924 James married Gloria Blanche Jordan (born 1901 in Toowoomba, QLD) and they lived in Sydney, NSW - where James worked as an Engineer - before relocating to Collie in Western Australia in 1931. James worked as an Engineer at the Collie Power Station until his death in 1955. Gertrude died in 1968.
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