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.
