The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E Stoner

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Private Edward STONER, G/17968, 1st Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Flanders France, 25th November 1916.

Born Hove, Brighton, Sussex, son of Frank & Fanny Matilda Stoner.

26th December 1910, Congregational Church, Hove, Sussex, married Daisy Batchelor, spinster, 123, Livingstone Road, Hove, Sussex.

1911 Census - 21 Molesworth Street, Hove - Edward Stoner, head, age 25, married, warehouseman, drapers, worker, born Hove, Sussex; Daisy Stoner, wife, age 22, married under one year, born Horsham, Sussex.

Children - Dorothy Agnes Stoner, born 3rd March 1912, Hove, Sussex.

Enlisted Hove, Brighton, Sussex, age 31 years & 3 months, height 5ft 3 inches, weight 112lbs, nasal catarrh chronic. Resided 123, Livingstone Road, Hove, Sussex. Formerly booksellers porter.

Home 11th December 1915 to 13th October 1916; BEF  14th October 1916 to 25th November 1916

11th December 1915, enlisted; 12th December 1915 to Army Reserve; 1st June 1916, mobilized; 2nd June 1916, posted 14th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, Service No.6055; 1st September 1916, transferred to 97th Training Reserve Battalion; 13th October 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th October 1916, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th October 1916, posted BEF; 14th October 1916, embarked / disembarked; 30th October 1916, joined Battalion "B" Company In the Field.

11th June 1917, pension of 18/9 a week awarded to widow & one child.

1st June 1920, Statement of Relatives, completed by Frank Stoner, brother - Widow, Daisy Stoner, 123, Livingstone Road, Hove; Children - born 6th ? March 1912; Father Edward Stoner, 14 Ellen Street, Hove; Mother, Fanny Matilda Stoner, 14 Ellen Street, Hove; Brothers - William Stoner, age 40, 100? Riley Road, Brighton; Albert Stoner, age 31, 1 Scott Road, Hove; Henry Archer? Stoner, age 25, 1 Park Cottages, Charles Street, Hellington; Frank Stoner, age 22, 14 Ellen Street, Hove; Frederick Charles Stoner, age 20, 14 Ellen Street, Hove; R Earnest Stoner, age 18, 14 Ellen Street, Hove; Sisters - Caroline Stoner, age ??, 21 Molesworth Street, Hove; Fanny Matilda Stoner, age 36, Dawley House, W Hayes, Middlesex; Kate Stoner, age 33, 73 Church Road, Hove; Grandparents, none; Nephews / Nieces - Arthur Stenning, age 5, 21 Molesworth Street, Hove; Lily Stenning, age 12, 21 Molesworth Street, Hove; Alice Grace Stoner, age 4, 9 Sheridan Terrace, Hove; Uncles / Aunts - Caroline Turner, age 69, 88, Livingstone Road, Hove; William Stoner, age 77, 9 Clarendon Road, Hove.

Buried at  Gorre British and Indian Cemetery,  III. D. 7., France. Commemorated Hove Roll of Honour

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show Service No. as G/17968, CWGC web site shows it as 17986