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KINGSTON, Stanley
(Service number 5/788)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	12/04/1887	Place of Birth	Ashburton

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Commercial traveller
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	W. T. KINGSTON (father), Temuka
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Army Service Corps, Detachment No. 5 Company, Transport Section
Date	12 February 1916
Transport	Waitemata
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

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Prisoner of War Information

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Discharge

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Death

Date	26 September 1957	Age	70 years
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Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Hautapu Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Stanley Kingston was the elder son of William Thomas and Emily Elizabeth (née Little) Kingston. His brother Albert Ewart Kingston, a newsagent at Temuka, was called up for service. Stanley was to return to New Zealand on the Remuera, due at Auckland on or about 29 April 1919.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 February 2017]; Press, 14 April 1919 (Papers Past) [17 February 2017]

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