Rank: 
Trooper
Service number: 
2987
Unit: 
3rd Light Horse Regiment
Location: 
Weli Sheikh Nuran, Palestine
Eyewitness to:
William Kemp
Packet number: 
5409
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/5409
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Submitted by Greg King (not verified) on Thu, 05/13/2021 - 10:15

STANTON, John William Lewis Service No. 2987

He returned to Australia, disembarking at Adelaide 23 June 1919. He was discharged from the army 4 August 1919 and went on to purchase a Soldier Settler property in Snowtown in 1921, passing away on 29 October 1965. His body cannot be in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery.

Submitted by Joannad on Mon, 05/17/2021 - 09:35

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your interest and further information about JWL Stanton.
As Stanton is an eyewitness rather than a soldier enquired upon, you can see from his statement that it is William Kemp (soldier enquired upon) who is buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery https://sarcib.ww1.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/packet-content/54138#https...
We had mistakenly indexed this location as one that Stanton had been at, but he was merely reporting that this was where Kemp was buried.
I have now removed the cemetery from Stanton's record and just kept Weli Sheikh Nuran, Palestine, the site of the action in which Stanton and Kemp fought together and where Kemp was fatally wounded.

Kind regards, Joanna

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