Durant, Stephen Abraham (3123)
Place of Birth: Port Melbourne, VIC
Age: 25 years 5 months
Enlistment Details: Monday, 12 July 1915 – Melbourne, VIC
Service Number: 3123 view online service record
Address:
1 Gabo Place
South Melbourne, VIC
Next of Kin:
Annie Durant (wife)
1 Gabo Place
South Melbourne, VIC
Embarkation Details:
Date: Wednesday, 29 September 1915
Ship: RMS Osterley
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 5th Infantry Battalion – 10th Reinforcements
Fate:
DOW: Tuesday, 18 December 1917
Place: 2nd Australian Field Ambulance, Belgium
Corporal, 5 Infantry, died of wounds, 18 December, 1917, Belgium, aged commemorated Irish House Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium.
Parents: Stephen R and Emily E DURANT, Wife: Annie, born Port Melbourne, educated Lee Street SS, Carlton, 248 Nott Street. Shown as a 25-year-old cigar maker when he enlisted from 1 Gabo Place, South Melbourne, his widow was later in Heidelberg with her parents and two children, Steve and Ruth. Eldest son, brother, 2608, Louis Stewart DURANT, returned 27 May, 1919. A Death Notice places his parents at 291 Coventry Street, South Melbourne. Brother-in-law of William John FISHER, South Melbourne Roll.
Additional research by Brian Membrey
Gabo Place was in South Melbourne close to the intersection of Market and Clarendon Streets
2 Comments
Brian Membrey
“I believe that Cpl. Steve Durant (5 Battn) was badly wounded, I think in the head – before Christmas at Wytecheete. He was in a Comms. trench called Bull trench on his way to get duck boots at the Stores when he was hit by a shell. If I remember right he died of wounds at the Battn. R.A.P. I am sorry I do not where he was buried. Dark, married, I can give no particulars) (Cpl. Sydney Tivey, 4321, 5 Battn)
Brian Membrey
DIED ON SERVICE – DURANT, Died of wounds on 18th December, 1917, Sergeant S. A. Durant, dearly beloved husband of Annie and fond father of Steve and Ruth, loved son-in-law of Mrs Fisher, Bell-street, Heidelberg, late of South Melbourne and beloved eldest son of Stephen and Emily Durant, 291 Coventry-street, South Melbourne, aged 27 years 10 months.