Lawrence Ralph Stone was born in 1893 to parents Herbert Stone (1859-1951) and his first wife Alexandra May (1863-1907). He had one sister, Henrietta Lily (1884 -1942).

Herbert remarried Eveline Mary Plunkett (1886-1974) in 1908 in South Australia and they had four more children born after 1910.

The family lived in many different addresses. In 1910 Herbert was living in Harold St and managing the business Herbert Stone Pty Ltd Box Manufacturers. In 1915 they had moved to Duke St, Perth and continued to run the business until they moved to 239-241 Fitzgerald St in 1931 which is also listed as the business on the corner of Fitzgerald St and Thongs Bridge St, Mt Lawley. In 1935 they were listed at 25 Ferrar St, Mt Lawley.

In 1915 Lawrence was living in Geraldton. In August 1916 he enlisted in WWI with his father listed as NOK at Clive Rd, Mt Lawley on the NAA record and Clifton St in the ADFA record.

Lawrence enlisted with the 82nd Depot, 28th Battalion 18th Reinforcements and he left Australia on the A34 ‘Persic’ in December 1916, arriving at Rollestone in March the next year. He undertook training but didn’t leave England until October 1917 due to being hospitalised with illnesses including mumps.

He went into battle in the field, but shortly after was taken to hospital with bronchitis and scabies at the end of 1917. He joined the battalion again and on 30th December 1917 he was killed in action in the field in Belgium.

He was buried in the private property of Chateau Rosenberg Military Cemetery, but all the graves were exhumed and interred moving in 1930 to another Cemetery at Berks Cometary Extension in Belgium. Plot 2, row C, grave 18.

His father received his war medals in 1923.

Grave photo courtesy of Ancestry.

William Tipping was born in Maitland, NSW 1872.

He married Sarah Ann Wilson (1871-1942) in Perth in 1896, the same year he commenced work at the Western Australian Government Railways W.A.G.R working as a Locomotive driver. At first the couple lived in Leederville moving later to the house called “Karma” at 9 Clive Rd, Mt Lawley. William enlisted in WWI in 1917at the age of nearly 45.

He was placed in the 3rd Railway Corps and left on the’ A28 Miltiades’ from Fremantle to England where he was appointed Sergeant in the 5th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company and proceeded to France. He spent one year and five months in service with two leave passes and time in hospital with rheumatism in his hands and legs as well as senile debility. He was transferred to England in September 1918.

He returned to Australia per the ‘Argyllshire’ and was discharged due premature senility.

He died in Perth on the 16th February 1925.

They had one daughter, Jean Amelia, who married Lieutenant Jack Manning. He served in WWII, and was killed in action in Singapore in February 12th 1942. They had two children.

That same year Sarah Jane died in July 1942.

After this Jean and her son Herbert lived at Clive Rd (somewhere the house number was changed to HN 12), and were still there in 1963.

Cyril Louis Hoft was born in Perth in 1896 to parents Herman Hoft (1867-1936) and Amelia Ann Penny (1871-1954). He was one of five children in the family. He grew up in the South West of Western Australia where his father worked at Wellington Mills. As a teenager he moved to Perth to Scotch College where he played for the school football team.

He enlisted on the 1st February 1916 in the 44th Battalion and left Fremantle on the HMAS Suevic A29. He arrived in England for training, leaving for the field in France in November. On the 28th June 1917 he was wounded in action in the legs and arms, sent to hospital, re-joining his Battalion four months later. In May 1917 he was hospitalised again with influenzas, joining his Battalion three months later.

On the 8th September 1918, he was again wounded in action with gunshot wounds to his right foot. He was returned to England to the Alexandra hospital in Cosham, England, and repatriated to Australia on the Takada in December 1918.

In 1919 , he took up again with the West Australian Football League (WAFL). In 1924 he went to South Australia to play with the Glenelg team returning to Perth in 1928 and then retiring from football.

In 1925 he married Dorothy Marjorie Davies (1899-1984) and they lived in Clive Rd. They had six children.

He took on work as a clerk and by 1931 had moved to Norfolk St, North Perth, with other moves to other part of the state.

Cyril enlisted in WWII, B883: Army 2nd AIF.

He died on the 5th July 1949.

Photo courtesy of Faithe Jones VWMA.

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