Unidentified Soldiers In Frame

A frame containing the images of 18 undentified soldiers associated with Stockton.

Send-off and Welcome Home Committee

The community organised numerous events to send off and welcome home service people during WW1.

Stockton Soldiers' Memorial

The memorial lists over 150 men and women associated with Stockton who served in World War One.

Stockton World War One Memorials

Various memorials and honour boards and rolls containing the names of Stockton World War One service people.

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27 May 2015

Stanley Roy BAXTER

Wednesday, May 27, 2015    No comments

"DIVORCE COURT." The Sydney Morning Herald
(NSW : 1842 - 1954) 28 Apr 1915: 7. Web. 29 May 2015
<http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15588289>.
Stanley Roy BAXTER seems to have lived a quiet life after he returned to Australia from the war. But his early life was more problematic. His parents split when he was young. However, the nature of that split is proving difficult to determine. The article to the left would indicate that his mother left his father. In an article detailing his arrest for theft in Lithgow, the situation was described as "his father had been absent from home for eight years." (SMH 19 Nov 1914) So who left who?

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