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Stanley KITCHER

Regimental number3085
Date of birth4 December 1893
Place of birthGlen Morrison, New South Wales
Place of birthGlen Morrison (near Walcha), New South Wales
SchoolGlen Morrison Public School, Glen Morrison, New South Wales; Glen Morrison Public School, New South Wales
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationLabourer
AddressGlen Morrison via Walcha, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation23
Next of kinMother, Mrs Elizabeth Kitcher, Glen Morrison via Walcha, New South Wales
Enlistment date11 November 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name33rd Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/50/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 24 January 1917
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll33rd Battalion
FateDied of wounds 18 October 1917
Place of death or woundingPasschendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death24
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialSt. Sever Cemetery Extension (Block P, Plot III, Row J, Grave No, 9A), Rouen, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
122
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Thomas and Elizabeth KITCHER, Glen Morrison, Walcha, New South Wales
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 1891 Pte Frank Herbert KITCHER, 1st Light Horse, returned to Australia, 15 November 1918; 3084 Pte George KITCHER, 33rd Bn, killed in action, Villers-Bretonneux, France, 10 April 1918; 4539 Sergeant William Henry KITCHER, 15th Bn, killed in action, 10 June 1917.
Other detailsWounded in action on 14 October 1917.

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