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YOUNGER, Stanley William

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  • WW1
Author: 
Sylvia Black
Family name: 
YOUNGER
Given names: 
Stanley William
Alternative name: 
WILSON, Stanley William (WW2)
Gender: 
Male
East Melbourne addresses
Year: 
1915
1915
82 Powlett Street
, East Melbourne, Victoria
, Australia
37° 48' 50.418" S, 144° 59' 9.51" E
Military service: 
WW1
Regimental number: 
292
Rank: 
CQMS
Military units: 
22nd Battalion, A Company
Place of death: 
Decorations and medallions: 
Meritorious Service Medal
Biographical notes: 

MSM.

Enlisted aged 21 on 10 Feb 1915.  Occupation bank clerk.  Gave uncle, J. Younger of 82 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, as next of kin.  Embarked aboard HMAT Ulysses on 10 May 1915.  Stanley also served in WW2 and this has meant that his  service records for both wars have been filed together with WW2 records and are at present not publicly available.  

However the Unit history of the 22 Battalion gives a broad outline of what he would have experienced.  The battalion was at Gallipoli from early September 1915 until the final evacuation in December the same year when it withdrew to Egypt.  In March 1916 the soldiers moved to France and the Western Front.  They saw their first major action at Pozieres.  They spent most of 1917 'bogged in bloody trench warfare from Bullecourt to Broodseinde'.  

Relationship: 
Cousin of Robert Sydney Younger
References: 
Australian War Memorial
AWM, Unit history, 22 Battalion
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