| Regimental number | 1016 |
| Place of birth | Eastwood, Parkside, South Australia |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Gardener |
| Address | Montacute, South Australia |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 31 |
| Next of kin | Father, Arthur S Stainbank, Semaphore, South Australia |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Corporal |
| Unit name | 43rd Battalion, C Company |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/60/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A19 Afric on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Sergeant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 43rd Battalion |
| Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Buried on eastern slopes of Messines Ridge, Belgium. |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death | 32.9 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 32 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 137 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Commemorated in Cheltenham Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia. Parents: Arthur Taggard and Florence STAINBANK. Native of Fifth Creek, Montacute, South Australia. |
| Medals |
Distinguished Conduct Medal 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in endeavouring to dig out four men of his platoon who had been buried in a trench under heavy lachrymatory gas attack. The position was under continuous shell fire the whole time, and although badly gassed himself, he carried out his duties with the greatest devotion, and set a splendid example to his platoon.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 219 Date: |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: Distinguished Conduct Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Postal Address:
Po Box 7916
Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
