GILMOUR, Stanley Gladstone
Stanley Gardner Gilmour was twenty-six and a half when he enlisted on 5 August, 1914. He already had considerable military service, having been in the Victorian Scottish Regiment, which he had joined in 1906 at the age of eighteen. He had served with them for four years, then had a further three years prior to the war in the 5th Battalion, presumably part-time, because at the time he joined up he was working as a traveller.
Stan Gilmour gave his address as 19 Clarence Street, East Malvern. On 24 August, 1914, he was called up and appointed as a Second Lieutenant, the rank he held in the CMF. He gave as his next of kin his father, Mr D.H. Gilmour, living as Lorne Rd., Caulfield East. He took slightly longer than others to get to the war, coming down with influenza on 1 October, 1914. However, he recovered and, on 21 October 1914, he embarked on HMAT Orvieto for service abroad. After a short stay in Albany, West Australia to join the rest of the fleet, the 5th disembarked at Alexandria,Egypt, where they completed their training. The 5th Battalion was in the second wave of landings at Anzac Cove and he was amongst the first to be wounded onthe beach, with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder. Less than a month later, he rejoined his battalion on the Gallipoli Peninsula, was discharged to duty on 19 May, 1915 and rejoined the 5th Battalion at Gallipoli on 25 June.
He was very confident that he woud continue in his duty, publishing a message in The Argus of 3 May, 1915.
LIEUT S. G. Gilmour
The relatives of Lieutenant S. G. Gilmour
of South Melbourne whose name was
in the first list of wounded have received
the following cable message from him:--
"Healed; returning to the front."
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Record
Australian National Archives Service Record
The Argus 3 May, 1915, p. 6; 1 July 1950 p. 22
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