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John Alfred Stammers

18 August 2015 by SWM

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.

Filed Under: S names, St Michael's War Shrine, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 24, France, KIA

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