Donald Jefferson STOW
World War 1 Service
https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/explore/people/212712
"Former Adelaide Taxation Office employee Private Donald Jefferson Stow with two young children in a London park, England. Donald 'Jefferson' Stow was born in Norwood, South Australia in 1891. Regimental No. 1098, 16th Battalion Machine Gun Section, Private Stow enlisted in the AIF on 12 September 1914 and landed at Gallipoli on the afternoon of 25 April 1915. He received a gun shot wound to his left breast on 8 August 1915. After evacuation and receiving medical treatment in England he returned to his unit and in December transferred to the 44th Battalion. On 12 April 1916 he married Linda Martin. In France on 2 August 1918 he was wounded again, receiving gunshot wounds to his left arm and buttock. Stow returned to Australia in 1918 and was discharged on 24 March 1919. He died in South Australia on 5 January 1973..."
See picture at ADELAIDE SOLDIER AND HIS PLAYMATES. (1916, August 5). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 27. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87311572
STOW, Donald Jefferson
b. 17 Mar 1891
Norwood, SA
d. 05 Jan 1973
e. Military
16th & 44th Btns.
wounded in France
12 Apr 1916
England
div. 05 Nov 1929
30 Aug 1930
Adelaide, SA
d. 22 Jan 1984
KI Connection
His widowed mother (Bertha Eleonore Caroline 1865-1923) was the Hog Bay school teacher between 1894 and 1906 who was prominent in fundraising for the dome over Frenchman’s Rock. Eight years after he left KI he was off to war. His father, John Wycliffe STOW (c.1858-1892) was the grandson of Rev. T.Q. Stow who came out on the Hartley with Giles et al. A brother George Rolfe Stow 1888-1977 was in the RANR after the war and ended up a Lieutenant-commander. There was a sister, Gertrude who married Bray and a third son who died as a neonatal. - Chris Ward.
His second wife, Elmira Kathleen nee BARR (b. 19 Feb 1897 Salt Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, SA d. 22 Jan 1984) was the daughter of John BARR and Elmira TRETHEWEY.