Name
William Stocks Lacey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/10/1916
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Army Medical Corps
140th Field Ambulance attached 11th Bn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
III. B. 45.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford
Hertford Working Men’s Club (Now Sloppy Joe’s Bar)
Guy’s Hospital Memorial, London
Pre War
Born on 4 Apr 1887 in Hertford and baptised on 15 May 1887 in St Andrew’s, Hertford son of William John Mark and Elizabeth Mary Lacey, of 6 Ware Road, Hertford. He was educated at Park House, Broadstairs, Kent and Guy’s Hospital from 1905 where he became doubly qualified in Dentistry (1908) and Medicine (1912). He married Mabel Barber on 23 Oct 1913 at St Andrew’s, Hertford and they lived at 153 Ware Road, Hertford. He worked as a dental surgeon.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 5 May 1916 and died in Heilly where there were several Casualty Clearing Stations.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
