Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT ‘Miltiades’ A28 for Egypt 19.2.1916.
Roll Rank Private
Roll Unit 11th Infantry Battalion, 14th Reinf.
Stacey disembarked at Suez 10.3.1916. During his almost 3 weeks stay in Egypt, he entrained to Alexandria, joined the BEF and then embarked per HMT ‘Transylvania’ for France 29.3.1916. He disembarked at Marseilles 4.4.1916. Stacey was admitted to hospital at Etaples with Influenza 9.4.1916. He was transferred to the 26th General Hospital at Etaples with bronchi pneumonia 16.4.1916. Stacey died of illness in France 16 4.1916. He was buried in the British Military Section, Camier’s Road Cemetery, Etaples, France 16.4.1916. Stacey's remains were reinterred to the Etaples Military Cemetery, Plot 5, Row B, Grave 3a in 1922
Final Rank Private 11th Bn. AIF.
Medical Condition Deceased, died of illness.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Photos Pte. Clarence Cameron Stacey. Photographer unknown, photograph source Sunday Times 31.12.1916 p1
             HMAT 'Miltiades'. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM P08559.001
             Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Photographer unknown, photograph source CWGC
            

Information Source
AWM P08559.001. HMAT 'Miltiades'. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War mMemorial
AWM Embarkation Roll Clarence Cameron Stacey
CWGC. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website,   http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/56500/ETAPLES%20MILITARY%20CEMETERY
Guildford Primary School Honour Roll.
NAA: B2455, Stacey Clarence Cameron.
Roll of Honour Clarence Cameron Stacey.
Sunday TimesWest Australian Newspapers
Wise H. and Coy. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

Helena St. Guildford, WA.
Quairading, WA.

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