The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H W Stanley

Private Harry Weaver STANLEY, G/20132, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 26th October 1917, age 28.

Born Lichfield, Staffordshire, son of *Charles and Ann Stanley. *Died 17th May 1917, Workhouse Infirmary, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire.

21st April 1889, St Michael, Lichfield, Staffordshire, baptism of Harry Weaver Stanley, son of *Charles and Ann Stanley.

1911 Census - Brook House Stables, Woodlands, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire - Harry Stanley, head (servant crossed out), age 22, single, groom domestic, worker, born Lichfield, Staffordshire; Albert Smith, boarder, ((servant crossed out), age 21, single, groom domestic, worker, born Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire.

1st June 1914, St John the Baptist, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, married Emma Coates, spinster, 98, Heathcote Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Children - Dorothy Ann Stanley, born 23rd August 1915, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Enlisted Longton, Staffordshire, age 26 years & 9 months, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 121lbs, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair. Resided 98, Heathcote Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Formerly potters carter.

Home 11th December 1915 to 11th October 1917; BEF 12th October 1917 to 26th October 1917.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 12th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 9th April 1917, mobilized; 13th April 1917, joined No.3. Depot, Reserve Cavalry, Service No.33710; 16th April 1917, posted 8th Battalion, Reserve Cavalry Regiment; 9th July 1917, Aldershot, absent from midnight 8th July 1917 to 1.45am 10th July 1917, 3 days confined to Barracks, forfeits 2 days pay; 1st September 1917, transferred to Royal Fusiliers, Service No.G/59295, for posting 5th Reserve Battalion, London Regiment; 12th October 1917, posted BEF & 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; 14th October 1917, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th October 1917, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th October 1917, posted missing.

23rd June 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 19/6 a week payable to widow will cease.

24th June 1918, pension of 20/5 a week awarded to widow and one child.

1923 September Emma Stanley married William Colclough, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Registration District.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Belgium. / Longton, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire War Memorial.

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