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Samuel Herbert Stonely

Name on Board SH Stonely
Name on Service
Records
Samuel Herbert  Stonely
Enlistment Age 41
Occupation Seaman
Place of Birth Queenscliff, Vic
Next of Kin Eleanor McNab Stonely
Address C/- Mrs Harsley, 77 Twyford St, Williamstown, Vic
Marital Status M
Enlistment Date 12/09/1914
Service No. 1088
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 19/10/1914
Embarkation Ship HMAT Hororata A20
Unit on Embarkation 6th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 8/05/1915
Unit on Death 6th Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Corporal
Cause of Death KIA (Previously reported mising. Court of Enquiry on 24/4/16 found killed in action 8/5/1915)
Place of Wounding/
Death
Cape Helles, Gallipoli (no known grave)
Cemetery or Memorial Helles Memorial, Cape Helles, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Additional Information Samuel Stonely sailed on the First Convoy of 38 ships which departed from Albany, Western Australia on 1 November 1914.
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