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Jack Edmund STRINGER

Regimental number1638
Place of birthDeniliquin, New South Wales
SchoolDeniliquin Public School, New South Wales
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationBlacksmith
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Next of kinFather, T Stringer, Deniliquin, New South Wales
Previous military serviceServed in the Cadets.
Enlistment date16 January 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll16 December 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name8th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/25/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A54 Runic on 19 February 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll2nd Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular'One of the first lads to enlist and the first Deniliquin native to pay the supreme sacrifice.' (details from father)
FateDied of wounds 15 May 1915
Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll)No date of death entered on Nominal Roll.
Place of death or woundingGallipoli, Turkey
Age at death19.5
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 30), Gallipoli, Turkey

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
54
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Commemorated in Deniliquin Cemetery, New South Wales. Photo: Kent Fedorowich
Family/military connectionsBrother: 1833 Sergeant Francis Thomas STRINGER DCM, Cross of St George (Russia), 56th Bn, returned to Australia, 8 April 1919.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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