Soldier profiles

Name : BAADE, STANLEY ALBERT
Service Number : VX18656
Date of Birth : 03/02/1913
Place of Birth : GIPPSLAND, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : BUTCHER
Date of Enlistment : 29/05/1940
Locality on Enlistment : AUBURN, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : BAADE, EDNA
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) : A COMPANY
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA, JAVA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 29/01/1946
Date Died : 27/08/1970
Age at Death : 57
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) : JAVA
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : NO
P.O.W. Camps (details) : BICYCLE (JAVA)
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : JAVA
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial B-JAVA-0004 Missing & POW Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6209164 [DIGITISED], Barcode 1032890 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial, Past article (size 368kB)

Background : Husband of Edna May Baade. Brother of E. J. Baade. Repatriated to Australia on S.S. Tamaroa.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 5 inches, brown eyes, medium complexion, dark hair. Marital status : married. Dependent children : 1 16 years & older. Marks / scars : appendix scar. Full time war service : A.I.F. 29/05/1940 to 29/01/1946 which included 2072 days active service (104 days within Australia & 1655 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East & Java areas (embarked from Australia 07/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 17/10/1945). War badge no. 290546. Discharge certificate no. 486665.

Service record
29/05/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
31/05/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
25/06/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with anaphylaxis.
02/11/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with injury to patella.
05/11/1940 Discharged from 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria to unit.
07/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
22/04/1941 Admitted ship's hospital.
27/04/1941 Discharged to unit.
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
18/06/1941 Evacuated to 1 Australian General Hospital with neurosis ?blindness and transferred to X list.
11/07/1941 Evacuated from 1 Australian General Hospital to 1 Australian Convalescent Depot.
29/09/1941 Evacuated from 1 Australian Convalescent Depot (with axillary adenitis) to 1 Australian General Hospital.
21/10/1941 Discharged 1 Australian General Hospital and transferred to Pioneer Training Battalion Dimra, Middle East.
21/10/1941 Marched into camp from 1 Australian General Hospital.
07/11/1941 Marched out to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from Pioneer Training Battalion.
10/11/1941 Taken on strength 2/2 Pioneer Battalion from Pioneer Training Battalion.
08/12/1941 Evacuated to 2/2 Australian Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station with Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (U.R.T.I.) and transferred to X list.
15/12/1941 Discharged 2/2 Australian Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station and returned to unit.
16/12/1941 Rejoined unit from 2/2 Australian Field Ambulance Main Dressing Station and struck off X list.
31/01/1942 Embarked Middle East on S.S. Orcades.
18/02/1942 Disembarked Batavia, Java.
07/03/1942 Reported missing in action, Java.
30/04/1942 Reported missing in action, Java date unknown and transferred to X list.
17/03/1943 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
23/03/1943 Reported missing in action believed prisoner of war.
19/06/1943 Now reported interned Java camp.
28/07/1943 Reported prisoner of war Java.
15/08/1945 Granted proficiency pay.
15/09/1945 Received from Batavia Radio and understood to be Australian prisoner of war in Java.
18/09/1945 Safe in Allied hands Batavia.
29/09/1945 Embarked Singapore on S.S. Tamaroa.
17/10/1945 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria.
17/10/1945 Marched in General Details Depot Watsonia, Victoria ex S.S. Tamaroa.
05/12/1945 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with peptic ulcer.
15/12/1945 Evacuated to 2/2 Australian General Hospital from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with abdominal pain Amoebiasis.
15/01/1946 Discharged to prisoner of war wing.
15/01/1946 Marched in General Details Depot, Victoria ex 2/2 Australian General Hospital to prisoner of war wing Watsonia, Victoria.
25/01/1946 Marched out to Australian Military Forces Discharge Depot.
25/01/1946 Marched in Australian Military Forces Discharge Depot, Victoria ex Leave and Transit Depot, Victoria.
29/01/1946 Discharged.