Bertie Stibbard
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'''Service no:''' 1981 [http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8093966] | '''Service no:''' 1981 [http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8093966] | ||
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'''Address:''' Cadia, via Orange | '''Address:''' Cadia, via Orange | ||
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STIBBARD, Bertie
Service no: 1981 [1]
Place of birth: Orange, 1895
Address: Cadia, via Orange
Occupation: Labourer
Next of kin: Frances Stibbard (mother), Cadia, via Orange
Date of enlistment: 24 February 1916
Place of enlistment: Orange
Age at enlistment: 20
Fate: Embarked SS Barambah Sydney 23 June 1916. Disembarked Plymouth 25 August 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal 7 February 1917. Appointed Temporary Colonel 27 May 1917. Killed in action, Messines, Belgium.
Date of death: 7 June 1917
Buried: Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium, Plot I, Row F, Grave No. 23
Bert Stibbard was a labourer from Cadia who enlisted in Orange in February 1916. He arrived in England in August the same year and proceeded to France as a private in the 34th Battalion. In February 1917 he was appointed Lance Corporal.
According to an eyewitness report Stibbard was killed by a shell explosion whilst sleeping in a bay in the trenches at Ploegsteert, Belgium on the morning of 7 June 1917. He was 22.
Leader, 3 August 1917, p.6.
The Late Corporal Bert Stibbard [2]
