George Clifford Stone was born on 18 March 1918 in Swanbourne, Western Australia to George and Doris Stone. George also had three sisters.

He worked as an Orchardist/Gardener prior to enlistment in the Citizen Military Forces (CMF) in Perth in early 1941. Later that year, he enlisted in the A.I.F. on 10 November and was drafted into the 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion.

On 26 January 1942, his unit boarded the Aquitania and sailed for Singapore, where he fought as part of E Company during the Japanese invasion, surviving a Japanese ambush. With the fall of Singapore, George was held as a POW in Selarang Camp, Changi until being shipped as part of A Force Burma as forced labour for the Japanese war effort.

Their first task was to repair airfields on the southwest coast of Burma but were soon sent to the north to build the infamous Burma-Thai Railway.

George survived this ordeal, and was moved south to Thailand once the railway was completed at the end of 1943. However, George was very sick and moved to Tamarkan Hospital camp where he died of malaria and dysentery on 1 March 1944. He was 25 years old.

George’s final resting place is plot 1.E.45. in CWGC Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.