Military History

Embarked Adelaide 22.7.1917 and then from Albany per ‘Port Melbourne’ A16 for England 24.7.1917.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit Army Medical Corps, June 1917 Reinforcements
38th Battery Australian Field Ambulance (1897 quota.)
Embarked from Adelaide 22.7.1917 per HMAT ‘Port Melbourne’ from Albany 20.7.1918.
Kirkbride disembarked at Liverpool with the Army Medical Corps 16.9.1917. He marched in to Parkhouse 17.9.1917. Kirkbride proceeded overseas to France 2.11.1917. He marched in to the 6th Field Ambulance in France. Kirkbride was sick for 3 days from 19.2.1918, then rejoined his unit 22.2.1918. He was admitted sick to the 20th Casualty Clearing Station 15.4.1918 with bronchitis and invalided to England per Hospital Ship (HS) A20 18.4.1918. Kirkbride was admitted to Reading War Hospital 21.4.1918 then transferred to Dartford Hospital still suffering with bronchitis 16.5.1918. He marched in to the Convalescent Hospital Weymouth 11.7.1918 and was discharged a month later to the No.2 Command Depot. Kirkbride attended the Education Training School 7.10.1918. He was listed for return to Australia, as nursing staff on board ship.
Embarked for Australia per ‘Lancashire’ 7.2.1919 as Nursing Staff.
Returned/Disembarked 21.3.1919.
Discharged 17.4.1919.
Final Rank Private, 6th Australian Field Ambulance.
Medical Condition NK.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Stanley’s brother Sidney (SN 1303) served in WW1 and was KIA. On his return to Australia from the front, Stanley had many troubled years with records of petty offences. Kirkbride served in the Second World War.

Photo 'Port Melbourne' A16 Melbourne 21.10.1916. Photographer Barnes Josiah. Photo source AWM PB0900
            3rd Auxilliary Hospital Dartford. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM C05043
            S.O.Kirkbride medals WW2. Source Military Memorabilia Ltd

Information Source
AWM PB0900. 'Port Melbourne' A16 Melbourne 21.10.1916. Photographer Barnes Josiah. Photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM C05043. 3rd Auxilliary Hospital Dartford. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Roll Stanley Oswald Kirkbride
Guildford Primary School Honour Roll
Guildford Grammar School Honour Roll
Guildford War Memorial
Military Memorabilia Ltd.  http://www.milimem.com/popup_image.php?pID=5723
NAA: B2455, Kirkbride Stanley Oswald
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
Wesley Church Honour Roll
Wise H. and Coy. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

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