WW1
STEWART, Lyla Ferguson
Lyla Ferguson Stewart was the 10th of 12 children born to Scottish-born parents John Stewart (1836-1912) and Elizabeth (nee Crawford) (1848-1922). She was registered at birth as 'Eliza'. John had come to Victoria as a young man in the early 1850s, and Elizabeth as a small child with her parents. They married in Terang in 1865.
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STIRLING, George Francis
George Francis Stirling was born in July, 1896. On 7 January, 1916, nineteen years and six months old,he enlisted to go to the war.
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Stone , John Edward
On 4 February 1915 at Wangaratta, Victoria, a man calling himself John Edward Stone signed up to join the Australian army. He described himself as born in East Melbourne, a storeman by occupation, aged 25 and eleven months and with military experience through School Cadets. He weas 5'9", a good height for the time and exhibited leadership qualities from the beginning of his army career.
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STRATTON, Frederick John
Frederick John Stratton was the only child of John Angus Stratton, a carpenter, and Agnes Peet. He was born in 1890 in South Yarra. His mother died in 1911 and two years later his father remarried, to Eliabeth Florence Thompson. They also had one son, Edgar John Stratton (1914-1980). Frederick Stratton married Grace Muriel Hitchen in 1912.
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