HENSE, Stanley
| Service Number: | 24 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Sydney, NSW, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Burwood, Burwood, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Plumber |
| Died: | 8 May 1976, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 20 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 24, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Sapper, 24, 1st Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Sapper, 24, 1st Field Company Engineers, HMAT Afric, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
GALLANT 18-YEAR-OLD AUSTRALIAN.
SAPPER STANLEY HENSE, third son of Mr. F. Hense, of Burwood
MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES (ROUTINE ORDERS OF JUNE 29) FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY AT GALLIPOLI.
Sapper Hehse, who landed in Egypt on his l8th birthday. In a recent letter to his parents, said that he was one of a party detailed to build a temporary barrel-pier jetty under terrific Shrapnel fire at about the time of the landing at Galllpoll. Twelve of the party were "mentioned" in the list published in yesterday's issue of "The Dally Telegraph." Sapper House was apprenticed to the plumbing trade when he enlisted with the Engineers in August of last year.
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