Name
Stanley Herbert Leete
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/06/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
12866
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
IV. C. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin,
Stained Glass Window, Hitchin Boys Grammar School,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour {Book}, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of Ernest and Mary Leete and their home was at ‘Conway Villa’, (57?) Walsworth Road, Hitchin. The family ran a gentleman's outfitting shop in Hitchin. Stanley was born on the 20th December 1894 and had attended Miss Pierson's School in Bancroft, Hitchin before arriving at the Hitchin Grammar School for the period 1906- 1911.
On leaving the school he joined his father's business. He was the third of four brothers who volunteered for service in the early part of the war
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin and was given the Regimental Number 12866. He arrived in France on the 30th July 1915 with Alfred James Sapsed. He was killed by a chance shell striking his billet while he was serving with the 6th Battalion of the Bedfords being in the 112th Brigade, 37th Division in France.
This probably occurred in the vicinity of Bienvillers-au-Bois, from which the Bedfords were to move forward as part of the defensive left flank to the great battle of the Somme which commenced a few days later on the 1st July 1916.
He was buried in Plot 4, Row C, Grave 1 in the Bienvillers Military Cemetery in France.
Additional Information
He was the brother of Frank Leete.
Stanley is also commemorated on a headstone in Hitchin Cemetery. The inscription is difficult to read, but mat be readable on site, it starts:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF STANLEY HERBERT LEETE
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
