NSW Trooper Edgar Roy Stanford

Trooper Edgar Roy Stanford

Biography

Birth date: 1893 

Birth place: Australia: New South Wales, Orange

Death date: 01 August 1915 

Death place: Egypt: Alexandria

Final rank: Trooper

Service number:  433 - First World War, 1914-1918

Unit:

1st Australian Light Horse Regiment

Edgar Roy Stanford was born at Orange, NSW in 1893 to Adolphus and Eliza Stanford. Prior to the First World War, he worked as a shop assistant at a general store. Stanford served 4 years with the Cadets and had 5 years involvement with the Orange Rifle Club when he joined the Australian Imperial Force. He enlisted on 22 August 1914 at Rosebery Park, New South Wales, and embarked with the 1st Light Horse Regiment from Sydney on 20 October 1914 aboard HMAT Star of Victoria. He landed at Gallipoli with the rest of his regiment on 12 May 1915, spending two months on the peninsula before receiving a fatal gunshot wound to the right thigh on 7 July 1915. Edgar Stanford was evacuated to Alexandria but succumbed due to complications surrounding his wound on the 1 August 1915. He was buried the same day at Chatby Cemetery, now Alexandria Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.