Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Alfred Stanley Rayner -

Name

Alfred Stanley Rayner, son of Thomas and Eliza Fanny Rayner, of Ryde
 
Service Record

Private 633 Alfred Stanley Rayner, 18th Bn. Australian Infantry

CWGC record ...
Australian War Memorial record ...

Further information

His name appears on the following memorials :

Ryde Great War Memorial
Ryde All Saints Church War Memorial
Ryde Holy Trinity Church War Memorial

He and his brother are also commemorated with an Additional inscription on the family headstone in Ryde Cemetery (RSHG)

Date of Death :	27 August 1915
Where buried or commemorated :	Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey; Australian War Memorial, Canberra

Alfred Stanley Rayner was born in 1896. He was the 13th child and youngest son of Thomas Rayner (a house painter) and his wife Eliza Fanny (nee Eldridge). The 1891 Census shows the family at Bedworth Road, Ryde, although Alfred is listed by his middle name Stanley. The family lived at 47 St John's Road, Ryde, in 1911. Alfred is shown as an errand boy for a Boot Dealer. It is not known exactly when Alfred emigrated to Australia.

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Photo provided by : Sandra McKessar of the Spirits of Gallipoli website.


Robert Dunbar writes : "A S Rayner was Alfred Stanley Rayner, who served in the Australian Infantry. He was killed at Gallipoli on 27-08-1915.
Alfred was my Fathers' Mothers' brother. He came to Australia from the Isle of Wight, with his sister Florence Ellen Rayner, thought to be around 1912 / 1913.
(Have not been able to identify the ship they arrived on).
He is the brother of Arthur Edward Rayner who is also named on the Ryde Great War plaque."

Commemorated at Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

Information provided by : Robert Dunbar. Alfred Stanley Rayner was his great uncle.