Name
Stacey Gamgee
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/10/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
733566
London Regiment *1
24th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUE-DU-BOIS MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
II.D.17
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Ayot St Peter Memorial, Roll of Honour, St Peter's Church, Ayot St Peter, Not on the Welwyn Village memorials
Pre War
Stacey Gamgee was born in 1894 in Elmdon, Essex to James and Mary Ann Gamgee and was one of nine children, although two died in infancy.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Cross Road, Ickleton, Cambridgeshire where his father was working as a thatcher. They had moved to Digswell Hill, Welwyn, Herts by 1911 and Stacey was working as a ploughman at John Welsh's Manor Farm in Ayot Green.
Wartime Service
In January 1915 he enlisted at Hertford and served initially with the Hertfordshire Regiment, later transferring to the Bedfordshire Regiment, & Notts & Derby Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) and finally the London Regiment.
Having been wounded twice before in France since joining up, he died of wounds on 14 October 1918 at the 4th London Field Ambulance and is buried in Rue-de-Bois Military Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £22 and pay owing of £2 8s 1d. Pension records exist although it is not clear how much was paid.
His parents later lived at Little Green, Ayot St Peter, Welwyn, Herts.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Brenda Palmer, Derry Warners
www.ayotstpeter.com,
