THE 1914-15 STAR TRIO, INTER-WAR 1935 JUBILEE AND 1937 CORONATION MEDALS AND 1967 ANZAC COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL GROUP TO STANLEY ELDRED TRAVILL, WHO SAW SERVICE IN GALLIPOLI AS DRIVER WITH THE DIVISIONAL TRAIN OF THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN DIVISION AND AFTER BEING EVACUATED SAW SERVICE AS AN EXTRA-REGIMENTAL STAFF SERGEANT DRIVER WITH THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS IN ENGLAND. Six: 1914-15 Star (regimental number officially impressed: "6596", but rank, name and unit erased and unofficially re-engraved in neat serifed capitals: "SGT. S.E. TRAVILL, S.A.M.C. A.I.F."), British War and Victory Medals, Victory Medal with Mentioned in Dispatches oakleaf (officially impressed: 6596 ER/S/SJT. S.E. TRAVILL 17 A.S.C. A.I.F.), 1935 Silver Jubilee Medal (unnamed, as issued), 1937 Coronation Medal (unnamed, as issued), Anzac Commemorative Medal 1967 (reverse officially named: S.E. TRAVILL). 1914-15 Star trio mounted loose style, as worn, 1935 Jubilee and 1937 Coronation medals on their original brooch suspenders, for wear, 1967 Anzac Commemorative Medal in its original case of issue and accompanied by the recipient's original mininiature medals, comprising 1914 Star trio with MID oakleaf, 1835 Jubilee and 1837 Coronation medals, this also mounted loose style, as worn. 1914-15 Star gilt, otherwise generally Good Very Fine to Extremely Fine.
The unusual "ER" prefix to Travell's rank on his WW1 medals indicates "extra regimental appointment".
Group accompanied by a presentation silver cigarette case, by Walker & Hall, Sheffield, with hallmarks for 1929, the gilt interior inscribed "Presented to S.E. Travill Esq, Town Clerk, as a token of appreciation from the Citizens Committee controlling the farewell function to H.E. Sir John Goodwin and Lady Goodwin. 6.4.32".
Group also accompanied by 20 pages of copied service papers, biographical details and research, including copied extract from "Who's Who in Australia".
Stanley Eldred Travill, A.C.I.S., J.P. (1892-1966) was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on 5/4/1892. He is recorded in the 1911 census as a 19 year old solicitor's clerk living in Dunstable with his parents and two sisters. Travell emigrated to Australia in 1911, embarking at London for Brisbane on 16/8/1911 and landing at Brisbane on 10/10/1911. He is recorded in the 1913 Australian electoral roll as being resident in Annerley, Queensland. Travill enlisted into the 17th Company Australian Army Service Corps on 24/5/1915 as a Private and was posted for service as a Driver with the 2nd Australian Division Military Train on 31/5/1915. Travill embarked at Alexandria for Gallipoli on 24/9/1915 aboard the SS Minnewasha.He was evacuated from Gallipoli aboard the hospital ship Somali on 28/10/1915 and subsequently admitted to the General Hospital, Gibralter on 7/11/1915, suffering from enteric fever. Travill was invalided to England on 14/12/1915, where he saw service for the remainder of the war as a Driver with the Australian Army Medical Corps, being promoted Acting Corporal, 7/5/1917, Acting Sergeant,
6/11/1917, and Temporary Staff Sergeant, 21/12/1918. He embarked for Australia on 15/11/1919, landed in Australia on 11/1/1920 and was discharged on 11/3/1920. For his services during WW1 Travill was "brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for valuable services in connection with the war" on 28/8/1919.
After returning to Australia Travill settled in Queensland and was appointed Deputy Town Clerk of South Brisbane.
When the city of Brisbane was established in 1925, which involved the amalgamation of 19 independent municipalities and shires, Travill was appointed Secretary of the newly elected council, the first officer to be employed by the council. He was subsequently appointed Deputy Town Clerk of the city of Brisbane, the first person to hold that post, and promoted Town Clerk in September 1931. Travill was prominent in the civic affairs of Brisbane, and was with the then Lord Mayor, William Jolly, instrumental in the establishment of Brisbane's Victoria Park Golf Club. Travill married Margaret Hunter at Staines, Middlesex, in 1919Stanley Eldred Travill died in 1966.
The presentation cigarette case that accompanies this group of medals was presented to Travill, who was then Town Clerk for Brisbane, at the farewell function for Sir John Goodwin, Governor of Queensland, on 6th April 1932.
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Godwin (1871-1916), saw service with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was Governor of Queensland 1927-1932. Group accompanied by a copied article from the "Queenslander" newspaper of 14/4/1932, giving details of the farewell function held on 6/4/1932 to mark the retirement of Goodwin as Governor General of Queensland, and at which Travill was presented with the presentation silver case. Travill, as Town Clerk, presented the retiring Governor General with an illuminated address.
