Name
Charles Stock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/06/1915
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/5035
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 37 to 41 or 328.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth UDC Memorial
St Mary’s Church Roll of Honour, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Charles Stock was born in 1881 and baptised on 11th
December 1881 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, son of George and Eliza
Stock. Charles was their second son and they had 2 younger sons and a younger
daughter. In 1891 the family were living at 7 Parsons Cottages, London Road,
Wellingborough. In 1900 Charles married Alice Rebecca Smart from Earls Barton,
who was the sister of John and Albert Smart who are also commemorated on the
Rickmansworth memorials. In the 1901 census it can be seen that Charles, an
engineer’s fettler, and his wife, Alice, with their 1 month old son Charles,
were boarding at 26 Palk Road, Wellingborough with John Clark. Alice’s mother,
Mary and her brother, Albert were also staying at the house. In February 1902
Charles enlisted with the Northamptonshire Regiment (service number 7541) and
served in South Africa from March to July when he was discharged.
In the 1911 census, their son, Charles, was living at 7
Wensum Cottages with Alice’s mother, Mary, who had married John Clarke in
Watford in 1908.
In 1911 Charles was living with Louisa Stock, to whom he
was apparently married, with 4 children at 124 Shakespeare Avenue, Harlesden.
There is no other obvious connection to Rickmansworth.
Wartime Service
The Royal Fusiliers sailed from England in March 1915 and landed in Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. They were engaged in action at the battles for Krythia and Achi Baba Heights. The War diaries for the battalion report that on 6 June they were occupying trenches they had captured on 4 June. 20 ‘other ranks’ had been killed, 52 wounded and 49 missing.
Additional Information
His war gratuity of £3 was left to his widow, Alice.
No connection established with Rickmansworth, but he is in the correct Regiment on St Mary’s Church.
Acknowledgments
Pat Hamilton
Malcolm Lennox, Pat Hamilton
