Stanley Franzien Carpenter DCM (22 September 1879 – 31 May 1962) was an Australian rugby league player.
[1] Carpenter was born in the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo and raised in Newcastle, where he worked as a coal miner.
[2] A strong forward, Carpenter captained the Newcastle Rebels for their only two NSWRFL seasons in 1908 and 1909, playing beside his brother Les.
[4] During World War I, Carpenter served with the Australian Army Medical Corps as a stretcher bearer and was in the third wave of troops that arrived at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.
He was part of the Battle of Pozières in 1916 and got recommended for a Victoria Cross by Major Harold Walker.