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Charles James Stanley

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C. J. Stanley
Service no. 2862
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd/47th Div. Ammunition Col.
Died on 14 September 1916, aged about 24
Remembered at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France

In 1911 Charles James Stanley, a carter for a confessioner, lived in four rooms at 23 Clarence Street, Studley Road, Stockwell with his widowed mother, Henrietta (née Coleman), 46, who was born in Lambeth, and four of his seven siblings and other members of his extended family. He was 19 and worked as a carter.

Stanley was born in 1891 and baptised at St Andrew’s, Stockwell Green on 17 May 1893. His father, William Heysed Stanley, was a house decorator and the family lived at 19 Lingham Street. 

In 1912 Charles James Stanley married Dorothy Mary Elizabeth Smith. A daughter, Dorothy Rose Muriel, was born in 1913 and a son, Charles Frederick Henry, posthumously, in 1917.

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Charles James Stanley lived in four rooms at 23 Clarence Street, Studley Road with his widowed mother, Henrietta Stanley, 46, who was born in Lambeth. He was 19 and a carter. His siblings were:
William Stanley, 27, a butcher’s assistant, born in Lambeth
Minnie Stanley, 21, a “layer on”, born in Lambeth
Ernest Stanley, 11, born in Clapham
Ethel Stanley, 8, born in Stanley
Henrietta Stuart, 26, married, born in Lambeth
Henrietta Stuart’s, husband, Sidney Stuart, 27, a general labourer, born in Bermondsey
Minnie Stuart, 1, their daughter, born in Clapham
Alice Stuart, 6 months, born in Lambeth
Henrietta had had 10 children, seven surviving.

Walter Samuel Standley

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W. S. Standley
Service no. 5330
Private, London Regiment, 1st/20th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in South Lambeth
Killed in action on 1 October 1916, aged 35
CWGC: “Son of Samuel and Ellen Standley, of 26, Priory Rd., South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Information from the 1911 census

Walter Standley, 28, was a railway porter. In 1911 he lived with his family at 2 Church Terrace, Union Grove, Clapham, where they had seven rooms. His parents, Samuel Standley, 55, a wheelwright and Ellen Standley, 52, both from Hethersett, Norfolk, had five surviving children (of six). There were three at home: Walter, Ida Stanley, 24, a kitchen maid, and Fred Standley, 22, a builder’s labourer, all born in Clapham. Ellen Driscoll, a 31-year-old single laundry packer born in the City of London, boarded.

John Alfred Stammers

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J. A. Stammers
Service no. 41606
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, “B” Bty. 155th Bde.
Enlisted in Deptford, south-east London; lived in Brixton
Killed in action on 4 November 1918, aged about 23
Remembered at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA

British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920

Few details of John Alfred Stammers’ Army career survive. We know he joined the 186th Howitzer Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery on 6 September 1915 at Deptford as a Driver. He was described as 20 years and 306 days, 5 feet 5½ inches tall, with a 34½ inch chest (expandable by 2½ inches). His general physical development as “good” but he had a slight varicose vein on his right leg.

Information from the censuses

Few details of John Alfred Stammers’ Army career survive. We know he joined the 186th Howitzer Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery on 6 September 1915 at Deptford as a driver. He was described as 20 years and 306 days old, 5ft 5½in tall, with a 37in chest. His general physical development was ‘Good’ but he had a varicose vein in his right leg.

The 1911 census shows John Alfred Stammers as a 16-year-old junior clerk living with his father, commercial clerk John William Stammers, 43, from Islington, north London and stepmother Phoebe Nellie (née Smith), 42, from Shoreditch, east London in four rooms at 64C Hackford Road, Stockwell. John Alfred’s mother Louisa (née Fowler) died in childbirth in 1901.

Alfred Ernest Stainer

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A. E. Stainer
Service no. 17371
Private, East Surrey Regiment, 9th Battalion
Lived in Walworth; enlisted in Clapham; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds on 13 August 1916, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs F. Stainer, of 1 Paradise Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Carnoy Military Cemetery, France

Alfred Ernest Brooks Stainer (sometimes Stainer-Brooks), born in Walworth, southeast London on 1 May 1896, was the  sixth of nine children of Frederick Thomas Stainer, a fishmonger from Charminster, Dorset and Angelina (née Furzard), from Melcombe Regis, Dorset. He was baptised at St Matthew’s, Newington on 3 June, when his parents gave their address as 30 Weymouth Buildings, which were in Sayer Street, Southwark.

On the night of the 1911 census the Stainer family lived in five rooms at 87 Mann Street, Walworth. The household consisted of Frank and Angelina, aged 48 and 49, and eight of their children. Alfred was employed as an office boy for a printer. A family of four had another two rooms. 

Later, the Stainers moved to 1 Paradise Road, Stockwell.

Isaac Spooner

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I. Spooner
Service no. 25552
Private, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), 9th Battalion, formerly 015439 R.A.S.C.
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Battersea; lived in Wandsworth
Killed in action on 1 September 1918, aged 24
CWGC: “Son of James and Matilda Spooner.”
Remembered at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France

In 1911 ironmonger’s assistant Isaac Spooner, 17, lived at 39 Brooklands Road, Stockwell, where his family had six rooms. His father, James Spooner, 55, from Newham, Hampshire, was a train engine driver for London & South Western Railway; his mother, Matilda Jane (née Hector), 55, was from Brixton. Three of Spooner’s six siblings lived at home, his sister Norah, 31, a dressmaker’s assisant, and two brothers, Henry, 27, a carman, and Sidney James (Isaac’s twin), 17,  a draper’s assistant (who also served in the Army Service Corps, was wounded by a bomb and survived – he died in 1929, aged 36). 

Spooner enlisted in Battersea 0n 6 October 1914, giving his occupation as carman. He was 5ft 4½in, 8⅔st, with a 36in chest. He had blue eyes, brown hair and a sallow complexion, with a scar in the centre of his forehead and on his left cheek. His physical development was judged to be ‘Good’. On 8 July 1915 he joined the Expeditionary Force to France. On 20 August 1917 he was transferred to the West Riding Regiment.

Matilda, Spooner’s widowed mother, died aged 62 of sarcoma of the jaw on 20 November 1918, 11 weeks after her son was killed in action. 

Information from the 1911 census

Ironmonger’s assistant Isaac Spooner, 17, lived at 39 Brooklands Road, Stockwell, where his family had  6 rooms. His father James Spooner, 55, from Newham, Hampshire, was a train engine driver for London & South West Railway; his mother Matilda Spooner, 55, was from Brixton. Three siblings (of six) lived at home: Henry Spooner, 27, a carman in Walworth; Norah Spooner, 31, a dressmaker working in Oxford Street; Sidney Spooner, 17, a draper’s assistant in Balham (and possibly Isaac’s twin). James and Matilda had a total of eight children (one died).