Lieutenant Stanley Robert CLOSE, a 19 year old State school teacher from 91 Bond Street, Ballarat East, Victoria. He enlisted on 20 August 1914 and was allotted to the 8th Battalion, H Company which embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 19 October 1914. During the Gallipoli Campaign he was Died of Wounds, 28 April 1915.

Sydney Mail, 12 May 1915, p. 10.