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Private W J Stenning

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Private William James STENNING, G/17889, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died as a Prisoner of War, Meresburg, Germany, 3rd October 1917, age 35.

Born Twynham, Sussex, son of Edmund Stenning, Tern? Hill, Jolesfield, Partridge Green, Sussex.

22nd April 1905, Parish Church, Ewell, Surrey, William James Stenning, age 25, bachelor, gardener, South Ealing, father Edmund Stenning, farm bailiff, married Martha Butcher, age 23, spinster, Kingston Road, Ewell, father, Edward Richard Butcher, deceased, cabman.

Children - Richard James Stenning, born 27th September 1907, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, West Ealing; Olive Barbara Stenning, born 19th September 1909, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, West Ealing;

1911 Census - 10 Lammas Park Lodge, Northfield Avenue, West Ealing, London W - William James Stenning, head, age 31, married, gardener, Borough Council, worker, born Bolney, Sussex; Martha Stenning, wife, age 29, married 6 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Epsom, Surrey; Richard James Stenning, son, age 3, born Ealing, Middlesex; Olive Barbara Stenning, daughter, age 1, born Ealing, Middlesex.

Children - Joan Ella Stenning, born 19th September 1911, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, West Ealing; Kenneth Aubrey Stenning, born 26th March 1915, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, West Ealing.

Enlisted Ealing, Middlesex, age 35 years & 8 months, height 5ft 6½ inches, weight 154½lbs, teeth defective.  Resided Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, Ealing, Middlesex. Formerly gardener.

Home 1st December 1915 to 2nd October 1916; BEF 3rd October 1916 to 3rd October 1917.

1st December 1915, enlisted; 2nd December 1915, to Army Reserve; 19th June 1916, mobilized & posted 27th (Reserve Battalion), Royal Fusiliers, Service No.3246; 1st September 1916, transferred to 103rd Training Reserve Battalion, Service No TR/10/56372; 3rd October 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th October 1916, embarked; 18th October 1916, joined 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, In the Field; 3rd May 1917, posted missing; 19th July 1917, Dulmen, Germany, Prisoner of War List.

10th November 1917, Translated report signed by Dr Strohmann, Prussian Prisoners of War Camp, Merseburg, Germany - William Stennings, West Kent Regiment, 6th Battalion; Date / Place of birth, Tuinam 12-03-80; Relatives, Betty Stennings, Werth Teld Ludys; Date/place of death, 3-10-17 Prisoners of War Camp, Merseburg; cardia weakness;, buried camp cemetery grave 85; no effects.

10th June 1918, pension of 33/9 a week awarded to widow & four children.

12th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Martha Stenning, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, Ealing; Children - Richard James Stenning, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, Ealing W13; Olive Barbara Stenning, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, Ealing W13; Joan Ella Stenning, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, Ealing W13;  Kenneth Aubrey Stenning, Northfield Lodge, Lammas Park, Ealing W13.; Father, Edmund Stenning, Tern? Hill, Jolesfield, Partridge Green, Sussex; Brothers - Jesse Stenning, age 47, The Cottages, Munthan, Horsham, Sussex; Edward Stenning, age 45, 31 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent; Sisters - Barbara Simmon, age 53, 18 Worth Terrace, Fairlain Park Sydenham, SE.

1920 September, Brentford Registration District, Martha Stenning, married Harry Crisp.

Buried at Berlin South-Western Cemetery, XVIII. D. 4., Germany.