Soldier profiles

Name : STEPHENSON, SYDNEY MAURICE
Service Number : VX71629
Date of Birth : 25/06/1922
Place of Birth : MELBOURNE, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : MILL WORKER
Date of Enlistment : 10/01/1942
Locality on Enlistment : NORTH CARLTON, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : FULLER, IREN
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) : 11 PLATOON B COMPANY (DAEO, MOROTAI)
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : BORNEO
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 16/08/1946
Date Died : N/A
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6068667 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, AWM_090599.jpg

Background :

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. widower. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 7.5 inches, brown eyes, fair complexion, light brown hair. Marital status : single. Marks / scars : posterior. Full time war service : A.I.F. 10/01/1942 to 16/08/1946 which included 1680 days active service (1041 days within Australia & 545 days overseas). Operational service : New Guinea area (embarked from Australia 25/07/1943, disembarked in Australia 10/02/1944), Borneo area (embarked from Australia 16/03/1945, disembarked in Australia 22/02/1946). War badge no. 322397. Discharge certificate no. 553008.

Service record
10/01/1942 Taken on strength Australian Imperial Forces Details Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
10/01/1942 Granted leave without pay.
19/01/1942 Transferred to 6 Training Battalion Darley Camp, Victoria.
20/01/1942 Transferred from Australian Imperial Forces Details Darley Camp, Victoria.
21/05/1942 Detached to Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria whilst performing guard duties.
22/05/1942 Transferred from 6 Training Battalion and taken on strength 34 Training Battalion Watsonia, Victoria.
26/05/1942 Rejoined unit from guard duties.
23/06/1942 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Watsonia, Victoria.
23/06/1942 Marched out to New South Wales Lines of Communication area.
23/06/1942 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Wagga Wagga, New South Wales ex 34 Training Battalion.
26/01/1943 Entrained 5 Military District (Western Australia) for 3 Military District (Victoria).
03/02/1943 Marched in Victoria Lines of Communication area ex 5 Military District (Western Australia).
03/03/1943 Evacuated to 107 Australian General Hospital Mangalore, Victoria and transferred to X list.
03/03/1943 Admitted 124 Specialty Hospital Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria with urethritis.
20/03/1943 Transferred in ex 124 Specialty Hospital Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria and struck off X list.
26/03/1943 Entrained 3 Military District (Victoria) for 1 Military District (Queensland).
25/07/1943 Embarked Townsville, Queensland on H.M.T. Duntroon.
28/07/1943 Disembarked Port Moresby, New Guinea0.
17/09/1943 Admitted 2/4 Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station with Not Yet Determined (N.Y.D.) malaria (benign tertian).
23/09/1943 Discharged to unit.
23/09/1943 Rejoined unit 2/2 Pioneer Battalion.
06/12/1943 Granted proficiency pay.
19/12/1943 Evacuated to III Casualty Clearing Station with Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (P.U.O.) and transferred to X list.
23/12/1943 Discharged III Casualty Clearing Station to unit.
24/12/1943 Taken on strength from III Casualty Clearing Station.
08/02/1944 Embarked Port Moresby, New Guinea on H.M.A.S. Kanimbla.
10/02/1944 Disembarked Townsville, Queensland.
16/03/1944 Evacuated to 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with malaria from leave and transferred to X list.
30/03/1944 Discharged from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria. Struck off X list and resumed leave.
12/05/1944 Evacuated to 5 Australian Camp Hospital Queensland with Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (P.U.O.).
13/05/1944 Evacuated to 5 Australian Camp Hospital Queensland with malaria (benign tertian) to 2/2 Australian General Hospital Queensland and transferred to X list.
24/05/1944 Discharged 2/2 Australian General Hospital to 2 Australian Corps Reception Camp for return to unit.
30/05/1944 Taken on strength from 2 Australian Corps Reception Camp.
16/03/1945 Embarked Cairns, Queensland on U.S.A.T. Sea Barb.
28/03/1945 Disembarked Morotai.
22/04/1945 Embarked Morotai for service in Tarakan.
18/05/1945 Embarked Tarakan for return to Morotai.
21/06/1945 Embarked Morotai for service in Balikpapan, Borneo per U.S.S. LST-1296.
10/10/1945 Transferred to 2/12 Infantry Battalion Balikpapan, Borneo.
10/10/1945 Taken on strength from 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Balikpapan, Borneo.
21/12/1945 Transferred out to 2/25 Infantry Battalion Balikpapan, Borneo.
21/12/1945 Taken on strength from 2/12 Infantry Battalion Balikpapan, Borneo.
24/01/1946 Transferred to General Details Depot Victoria Lines of Communication area (reposting) via 7 Division Demobilising Forces.
29/03/1946 Transferred in from General Details Depot Southern Command and posted to local administration No.4 area Melbourne, Victoria.
16/07/1946 Transferred to 12 Australian XXXX Battalion.
17/07/1946 Transferred in from local administration Australian Headquarters.
12/08/1946 Marched out to Australian Military Forces Discharge Depot for discharge.
16/08/1946 Discharged, Victoria.