Name
William Cooper Stanton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235499
King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
IV. F. 36.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Peter's Church Memorial, Mill End, Not on the Rickmansworth Memorials, Toddington Village War Memorial, St George's Church Memorial, Toddington
Pre War
William (Willie) Cooper Stanton was born in 1878 in Castle Bytham, Lincolnshire, son of William and Fanny Stanton. He had a younger sister, Winifred.
The family moved several times. In 1881 they were living with William’s (senior) brother in Misterton, Nottinghamshire, in 1891 in Binfield, Berkshire and in 1901 in Newport Pagnell. William and his father both worked as gardeners. Willie’s marriage to Annie Maria Percival was registered in Buckingham in 1901 and in 1911 they were living at 71 Denmark Street, Bedford with one daughter, Edith Annie, aged 5. William’s parents, William and Fanny lived at 27 Church Lane, Mill End during the 1920s.
In correspondence, William’s wife, Annie, gave her address as 4 Denmark Street, Bedford and said she was lodging there in the week whilst her daughter was at the Girls’ Modern School. She stated that she hoped to be able to keep her home in Toddington.
Wartime Service
William enlisted for 4 years in March 1915. He was wounded in action in the head, forearm and side on 2nd September and died of his wounds on 8th October 1918.
Terlincthun Cemetery, near Boulogne was chiefly used for burials from nearby base hospitals to which William may have been taken when he was wounded.
Additional Information
The inscription on his headstone reads: "Not lost but gone before from his ever-loving wife daughter, father and mother".
Acknowledgments
Pat Hamilton
Malcolm Lennox
