Joseph Stuart (Georgie) ASHBY

ASHBY, Joseph Stuart

Service Number: 1901
Enlisted: 19 January 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 13th Infantry Battalion
Born: Southwark, England, December 1883
Home Town: North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Cigar Salesman
Died: Died of Wounds (received at Gallipoli), Alexandria, Egypt, 28 September 1915
Cemetery: Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
D 120, Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll
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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Born at 38 Darwin street, London, was the son of Ernest Rupert and Anne Ashby, of 23 Trafalgar road, Southwark, London, England. (No. 23 no longer exists - possibly this part of the street was Blitzed during WW2.)

Late of Mosman, NSW

Member of the Tarbolton 12 Lodge

ASHBY.—Lance-Corporal J. S. Ashby ("Georgie"), died of wounds received at Dardanelles. Inserted by his friends, Phyllis W. Wilkes and Howard W. Remington.