Name
Stanley Charles Hunt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/05/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203209
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA CHAPELETTE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY, PERONNE
I. C. 2.
France
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Little Wymondley
Shefford War Memorial. Shefford, Bedfordshire.
Pre War
Stanley was born on the 8th January 1898, in Little Wymondley. The son of James Hunt and Pricilla Hunt (nee Howard). The eldest of four children. Stanley was Baptised on the 10th April 1898, in Little Wymondley. The 1901 census recorded Stanley aged 3, living at 3 Old Park Road, Hitchin, with his parents and younger brother Henry 2. Stanley attended St Mary’s Infant School, Hitchin and Shefford Lower School. By 1911 Stanley was 13 and living with his parents, brother Henry 12, and sisters Catherine 8 and Ivy 3, at the Gas Works, Shefford, Bedfordshire, where his father was the manager.
Wartime Service
Stanley enlisted in Bedford, in June 1916, and posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 29961. In October he was transferred to the 2nd/ 5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) Regiment, with the service number 203209. His records show he died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen on Friday 4th May 1917.
Additional Information
CWGC Inscription Reads; “Son of James and Priscilla Hunt of High Street, Shefford, Beds”. The inscription on his CWGC Headstone reads: “GONE BUT NOT FORGOTEN”
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
