Name
Stanley Rumball Eggleton
19 Jan 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Staff Serjeant
3623
Australian Army Medical Corps
7th Field Amb.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
II. J. 21.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Stanley Rumball Eggleton was born on 19 Jan 1890 to Emily Eggleton.
On the 1891 Census Stanley was living at 14 Gamnel, Tring with John , a labourer) & Sarah Eggleton, and their family of Emily (born 1868, a straw plaiter, Harriet (born 1870, also a straw plaiter and William (born 1873).
On the 1901 Census Stanley was living with his mother Emily who was the Housekeeper for Her Father John, and Emily’s son Percy (born 1900) at 28 New Mill Street, Tring.
Stanley emigrated to Australia arriving on 20 Apr 1911 in Adelaide.
Wartime Service
Stanley enlisted in Oakland, South Australia on 8 Dec 1914 and was posted to 7th Field Ambulance Australian Medical Corps , Australian 2nd Division as Private 3623. He was promoted to Corporal on 8 Dec 1914 . He left Australia on 31 Aug 1915 for Egypt with 7th Field Ambulance on TS ‘Geelong’, and was promoted to Sergeant on 16 Apr 1915. He went to Gallipoli on 4 Sep 1915 with the Field Ambulance and was hospitalised on 21 Oct 1915.
On 10 Jan 1916 following the evacuation from Gallipoli he disembarked in Alexandria, Egypt. By 14 Mar the Field Ambulance and Stanley were aboard ship en-route to join Australian Expeditionary Force, arriving in Marseilles on 19 Mar 1916. 7th Field Ambulance was attached to 2nd Australian division. Stanley was again hospitalised (with Bronchitis) on 9 Apr 1916 and was discharged to 2nd Division Rest Station in Fort Rompu on 11 Apr. He return to duty at his Unit on 15 Apr 1916.
He had leave in UK from 31 Jul 1917 to 13 Aug 1917. Returning to duty the with his unit at Passchendaele (3rd Ypres) where 2nd Division were engaged in the Battles of Menin Road (20-25 Sep), Polygon Wood (26-28 Sep), Broodseinde (4 Oct), Poelcapelle (9 Oct) . Stanley became a casualty of German Shelling while tending casualties at Waratah Rest Station and died of his wounds on 8 Oct 1917 at 11 Casualty Clearing Station.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
