GRIFFIN, Stanislaus
| Service Number: | 4213 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Carlton, Victoria, 8 April 1891 |
| Home Town: | Brighton, Bayside, Victoria |
| Schooling: | C.B.C. School, St. Kilda |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | East Melbourne, Victoria, 18 July 1952, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 26 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1 | |
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| 14 May 1915: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Gunner, 4213, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' |
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| 14 May 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 4213, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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The Griffin brothers, John Stanislaus (Stan) aged 24 and Charles Gilbert aged 20, enlisted on the 26th January "Federeration Day" 1915. Stan was given the Regimental No. of 4213 and Charles 4214. They were each assigned to the 5th Reinforcements of the Brigade Ammunition Column, an element of the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade A.I.F. They embarked from Melbourne on 17th April, 1915 on troopship HMAT Hororata.
Arriving in Egypt on the 24th May, they then continued on to Anzac Cove on the 15th July. Both boys came down with severe dysentry and were shipped to Egypt where Charles stayed in hospital till the end of November 1915. Later he transfered to Pay Corps and rerturned to Australia on 31 August 1916.
Stan went back to Anzac on 13th October and remained there untill evacuation 15th December.
March 1916 Stan landed in Marseilles, France then Le Have, thru to the Somme Jan 1917, Lagnicourt April 1917. His unit the 102nd battery,saw action thru to Tincourt.
On 2nd July 1918 Stan was wounded by his gun blowing up due to a premature explosion, that may have been by faulty ammunition. Wounded to the head, chest, arm and leg he was placed in the mortuary as a hopeless case. A nurse who he knew from Melbourne, saw Stan and prevailed on a Doctor "Dingy" Bell to operate and remove a piece shrapnel "the size of a 5 cent piece" from his right temple. He stayed at the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station until the 1st August and then sent to No.1 London, then to Harefield Hospital on 12th September 1918.
His period of service was 1446 days of which 1342 days were served abroad. His pay was 520 pounds 10 shillings and 3 pence. $1040.05 i.e. 72 cents per day.
Cemetery details: New Cheltenham Cemetery, Victoria