Stanley Oswald KIRKBRIDE

KIRKBRIDE, Stanley Oswald

Service Numbers: 18529, 18259, W62175
Enlisted: 8 September 1916, 38th Battery Australian Field Ambulance
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: Australian Army Canteen Service
Born: Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 12 September 1897
Home Town: Guildford, Swan, Western Australia
Schooling: Guildford Grammar School, Western Australia
Occupation: Cadet Clerk (WA Railways)
Died: Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 1970, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
Memorials: Guildford St. Matthew's Anglican Church Honour Roll, Guildford State School Honour Roll, Guildford War Memorial, Guildford and District Roll of Honour
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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Stanley was the youngest of three sons of John Kirkbride (born 1870 in Yorkshire) and Emma Partington (born 1863 0n Yorkshire). John and Emma married in Sydney NSW in 1885 - eldest son Charles was born in Newcastle NSW in 1887, and Sidney and Stanley were born in Fremantle, WA.

Stanley was a Cadet Clerk with the WA Government Railways in Guildofrd, WA in 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF. He was a Private (Service No: 18259) when he was Discharged in 1919.

Older brother Sidney Harold (born 1895 in Fremantle, WA) served with the AIF 14th Field Artillery Brigade and 53rd Battery as a Gunner (Service No: 1303) from 1915 until he was KIA near Ypres, France in 1917.

Stanley returned to Guildford in WA and worked as a Clerk with the WA Government Railways until 1922. He married Doris Edwina Austin (born 1900 in York, WA) and they lived in Perth where Stanley worked briefly as a Warehouseman, and then returned to work for the WAGR as a Labourer until his retirement in 1961.

During WWII, Stanley served with the ACMF from 1942 to 1944 with Australian Army Canteen Service as a Private (Service No: W62175). He and Doris divorced in 1948. and Stanley died in Nedlands, Perth, WA in 1970

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