Stanley Witham was born in West Ham, London in 1893 and migrated to Victoria in 1912, soon finding himself playing for Prahran alongside housemate and fellow doomed Soccer Anzac Robert Helps.
Private Witham was wounded at the Gallipoli landing, rejoining his unit three weeks later after hospitalisation in Malta. He returned to Australia in September and re-enlisted in November 1915.
Promoted to Corporal in May 1916, Witham was killed at Fromelles on the Western Front two months later. Initially reported as missing on 19 July, he was later found to have been killed in action.
He is memorialised in the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour.