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WILLIAMS, Stanley George
(Service number 10/3126)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	15 June 1895	Place of Birth	Christchurch

Enlistment Information

Date	16 June 1915	Age	20 years
Address at Enlistment	C/o W. Eyles, Ohakune; Peoples Palace, Wellington; (1919)
Occupation	Labourer; driver (1919)
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs A. WILLIAMS (mother), care of Magistrate's Court, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 10 inches. Weight 146 lbs. Chest measurement 31-35 inches. Complexion fresh. Eyes blue. Hair fair. Sight, hearing & colour vision all normal. Limbs well formed. Full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart & lungs normal. Teeth excellent. free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily & mental health. No slight defects.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	7th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Wellington Infantry Battalion
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Infantry

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian; Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Western European
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	7 June 1919	Reason	On Termination of Period of Engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Wounded mid 1917. Wounded & gassed on 2 February 1918.

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	29 December 1971	Age	76 years
Place of Death	Raetihi
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Raetihi Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Row 32, Plot 18
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Stanley George Williams was the son of Mr A. Williams formerly of Heaton Street, Timaru, and of Mrs A. W. Williams, care of the Timaru Magistrate's Court. Both parents were born in London. He was born on 15 June 1895 to Arabella Williams. For pay allotments - Alfred E. Williams, Mangarakau, Collingwood, Nelson. In 1922 Stanley married Sylvia Estelle Roberts.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [28 May 2017]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5557 0123003) [05 July 2017]; Timaru Herald, 9 July 1917, 25 February 1918 (Papers Past) [05 May 2016]

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