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WILLIAMS, Stanley Ernest John
(Service number 13/2503)

Stanley Ernest John Williams, 1915 — (South Canterbury Museum 2019/175.01 #11)

Waimataitai School portrait, circa 1905 — Stanley EJ Williams pictured seated on the left end of the front row. (South Canterbury Museum 2019/175.01 #14)

Waimataitai School cadets, circa 1909 — The cadets are posed with a mantle clock presented to them, presumably as a prize. Stanley E J Williams is pictured sitting on the right end of the second reo in the left image, and by himself with the clock in the image on the right. The clock is also held by the South Canterbury Museum. (South Canterbury Museum 2019/175.01 #14)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper (1915); Sergeant (1917)	Last Rank

Birth

Date	20 November 1892	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Rangiora House, Hastings (1915)
Occupation	Dentist
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single (1915)
Next of Kin	John WILLIAMS (father), 53 Avenue Road, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	7th Reinforcements (1915). New Zealand Expeditionary Force (1917)
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Auckland Mounted Rifles (1915). New Zealand Dental Corps (1917).
Date	(1) 9 October 1915; (2) 14 March 1917
Transport	Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo (1915). Ruapehu (1917)
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt (1915). Devonport, England (1917)

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Post-war Occupations

Dentist, dental mechanic

Death

Date	13 July 1966	Age	73 yrs
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 142, Plot 439
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Son of John & Ann (nee THOMAS) WILLIAMS, of Timaru. educated at Waimataitai School, Timaru. Returned to New Zealand in September 1917. Married Annie Ivy Reka (Ivy) HILTON in 1918.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [08 March 2014]; Timaru Herald, 26 September 1917 (Papers Past) [08 March 2014]; TDC headstone image (Timaru Cemetery) [08 March 2014]

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