John Stanley Parke (SN 5184) was born at Daylesford and was an 18 year old painter when he enlisted in Ballarat on February 8th 1916. He embarked from Melbourne aboard the Suffolk on April 1st 1916, first to England and then to France where he suffered a slight eye wound in September 1916. The following month he was transferred from the 6th Battalion to the 59th Battalion with whom he served until November 1917 when he was attached to the Australian Employment Company. In November 1918, as the war ended, he was on leave in Scotland and hospitalised with tonsilitis. He returned to Melbourne aboard the Lancashire, arriving on March 31st 1919 and being discharged on June 6th.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as John S. Parkes.