Participant Info

Surname

Tanko

First Name

Stanley

Initial

V

Service Number

5451

Rank

private

Unit Served

55th Battalion

Service Record

Egypt, France

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

January 12

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

April 14

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 83, image page 82

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

George and Mary S. Tanko

Parental Address

Oxford Street, Balmoral

Parental City

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born at Ashfield, October 27, 1897, educated Canterbury Superior Public School, plumber, enlisted October 1915, embarked April 14, 1916. War service: Egypt, France (wounded and gassed four times.) Signaller Tanko holds a first-class certificate as a wire