Jeffrey STONE

STONE, Jeffrey

Service Number: 70
Enlisted: 19 August 1914, Toowoomba, Queensland
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 1st Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
Born: Toowoomba, Queensland, 28 January 1895
Home Town: Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Printer
Died: Natural causes, Toowoomba, Queensland, 27 March 1940, aged 45 years
Cemetery: Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland
Plot: Sect. CE 9 Block 6 Allotment 32
Memorials: Toowoomba Gordon Gymnastic & Athletics Club Honour Board, Toowoomba No. 3 Invincible Tent Independent Order of Rechabites, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW1
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Biography

"MR. JEFF STONE

Mr. Jeff Stone, a member of the firm of Job Stone, printers, Toowoomba, died on Wednesday night. Mr. Stone was born in Toowwoomba 45 years ago. He served as an apprentice at the printing trade under his father, the late Alderman Job Stone. He was one of the first to enlist in the Great War in Toowoomba, where he joined the Second Light Horse Troop and was in action at Gallipoli." - from the Western Star and Roma Advertiser 29 Mar 1940 (nla.gov.au)

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