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REID, Stanley Spencer
Personal Details
Service Number: | 41 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry |
Born: | Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia , 12 July 1872 |
Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Caulfield Grammar, Scotch College & Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Minister of Religion |
Died: | Wounds, Middelburg, South Africa, 29 June 1901, aged 28 years |
Cemetery: |
Old Middelburg Municipal Cemetery, Mpumalanga, South Africa He was buried in a grave by the men he commanded, situated between those clumps of Australian wattles, the large wooden cross bearing his name at its head, with full military honours. 6WAMI Medical Report. |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Barton St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Ministers Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice, WA Kings Park Boer War Memorial |
Service History
Boer War Service
1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel, 41, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry | |
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1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 41, 2nd Western Australian Mounted Infantry | |
3 Feb 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 41, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, From Fremantle WA on SS Surrey | |
7 Mar 1901: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, Karrakatta, WA | |
10 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 41, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, From Fremantle on SS Ulstermore | |
16 May 1901: | Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 41 | |
16 May 1901: | Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 41, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, GSW to abdomen at Brakpan. | |
23 Jun 1901: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 41, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry | |
23 Jun 1901: | Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 41, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, GSW to abdomen at Renshoogte. Evacuated by ambulance cart for a three day trek to Middel Kraal, where Lt Reid died of his wounds six days later on 29 June 1901. | |
29 Jun 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 41, 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry, Died from stomach wounds. | |
1 Jul 1901: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Stanley Spencer REID was born in Swan Hill, Victoria on 12th July, 1872
His parents were John Bentley REID & Sybil Ross DREWRY
Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Lt Stanley Spencer Reid played 24 games with Fitzroy FC in the VFL between 1897 and 1898, including the 1898 Premiership.
Source: Fallen 2002, p. 7-10.