Name
Stanley Watkins Lockyer
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/11/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14207
Inns of Court Officer Training Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (HEATH LANE) CEMETERY
YB. 42.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials, King Edward VII School Memorial, Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, St Mary's Anglican Church Memorial, Greyville, Durban, South Africa, Cenotaph, City Hall Memorial, Durban, South Africa
Pre War
He was born in 1895 in Durban, Natal, South Africa the son of Thomas and Mary Lockyer and lived in South Africa.
He was also the nephew of Frederick Arthur Lockyer who lived at 113 Ebberns Road, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, Herts and was employed as a Cardboard Box Maker (probably at John Dickinson & Co. Apsley).
He arrived in London on the SS Inanda in First Class on 3 September 1918 and his occupation was given as Clerk with the South African Commissioners.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 21 October 1918 for Home Service with the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps, being stationed at Berkhamsted, Herts, but died of influenza at the War Hospital, Napsbury, St Albans on 10 November 1918, age 23.
He is buried in Hemel Hempstead Cemetery and on his grave it records him as a Signaller R.N.V.R. Durban, S. Africa.
Additional Information
His mother received his pay owing of £5. A war gratuity was not admissible.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, dacorumheritage.org.uk, www.findagrave.com
