Name
Stanley Smith
24 Sep 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/07/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
16097
Lincolnshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints' Church Memorial(s), Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Stanley Smith was born on 24 Sep 1891 (baptised at Hockerill on 4 Nov 1891) in Bishop's Stortford, the only son of Albert Edward Smith and Martha (nee Mitchell).
On the 1901 Census he was living with his parents at 3 Highland Place, Dunmow Road, Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford. On the 1911 Census he was living with Charles A Deverill (a watch and clock maker) at 3 Potter Street, Bishop's Stortford, where he was employed as a watch and clock maker’s assistant. His parents were living at Highland Place, Dunmow Road with daughter Dorothy (born 1902).
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for Stanley. He enlisted at Grantham on 29 Mar 1915 as Private 16097 into the Lincolnshire Regiment and went to serve with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli from 14 Sep 1915 (possibly with 6th (Service) Battalion) until the evacuation of the Peninsula in Jan 1916, when he was invalided home to UK suffering from frozen feet and blood poisoning.
Having recovered, he proceeded to France in Jun 1916 to join 1st Battalion on the Somme as part of 62 Brigade, 21 Division and was killed in action on 3 July 1916 during the Battle of Albert (1-13 Jul 1916) during an assault (while under heavy fire from the enemy) to consolidate and expand the positions gained between Fricourt and Mametz on the first two days of the Battle. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £3 2s 4d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
