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VINCENT, Stanley Victor Carthew
(Service number 28927)

Stanley Vincent, circa 1910-1916 — Vincent is probably pictured here in his pre-war uniform, when he served with the 8th South Canterbury Mounted Rifles (territorial forces). (Courtesy of B Hayman )

Waimataitai School War Memorial, pictured in 2007 — (South Canterbury Museum )

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	03/06/1897	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	29 June 1916	Age	19
Address at Enlistment	Annadale Farm’ Albury, Canterbury
Occupation	Farm Hand
Previous Military Experience	8th South Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Alfred Vincent (father), 121 Wilson Street Timaru, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	18th Reinforcements, 2nd Canterbury Infantry Battalion, J Company
Date	11 October 1916
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	2nd Battalion, 13th Company, Canterbury Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	12 October 1917	Age	20
Place of Death	Ypres, Begium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Tyne Cot memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	NZ Apse, Panel 2
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Albury War Memorial (as S Vincent); Waimataitai School War Memorial; Fairlie War Memorial, Te Ngawai memorial

Biographical Notes

Stanley was the son of Mr. Alfred and Mrs. Eliza Vincent latterly of Timaru. He attended the Te Ngawai School. He was born on the 4th June 1896.

On his enlistment he gave his occupation as a farm hand. His employer was R. Vincent of "Annandale” AIbury, South Canterbury. Stanley had previously served with the 8th South Canterbury Mounted Rifles.

Stanley enlisted on the 28th September 1916 and embarked on the 11th October 1916 from Wellington, boarding the HMNZT 67 Tofua bound for Plymouth, England. On arrival on the 29th December 1916 he went to Sling Camp, and from there left for

France 1st February 1917 to join the 2nd Battalion on 3rd March 1917,

Stanley was killed in action on the 12 October 1917, Ypres, Belgium.

During his service he had been promoted twice, first to Lance Corporal on 15 August 1916 and then to Corporal on 24 August of the same year.

Stanley is remembered by his family, and by several local memorials in communities around South Canterbury.

Sources

Cenotaph database (October 2014); rootsweb,ancestry.com; NZ Historical BDM records (bdmhistoricalrecords,dai.govt.nz); Jeremy Suherland, Albury District War record 1914-1918; SCRoll submission by B Hayman, 16 AMrch 2018

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Researched and Written by

Ann Munro, SC branch NZSG; Doreen Knight, Mackenzie Genealogical Group

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