Name
Albert Thomas Stallon (poss Stallan)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/10/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235093
Lincolnshire Regiment
8th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
VI. C. 29.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book, St Luke's Church Memorial, Bishops Hatfield, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the St Albans memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Roe Green ,
Pre War
Son of son of Henry Edward Stallan a Labourer and Eliza Stallan (nee Sudell). One of their seven children although one died in infancy. of 1 Cecil Cottage, Roe Green, Hatfield, Herts.
1901 Census records Albert aged 2, living with his parents, Sister Alice (15), brothers, Henry (10), William (7) and Arthur (4), at 13 Roe Green Cottages, Chantry Lane, Hatfield, Herts.
The 1911 census: Albert, age 12, was living with his parents, four brothers Henry (20), William (17), Arthur (14) and Geoffrey (8), at 1 Cecil Cottages, Roe Green, Hatfield. His father, William and brother Arthur are all Farm Labourers, brother Henry is a Railway Porter.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was living in St Albans when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 5562 in the Hertfordshire Regiment and was later transferred to the 8th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment with service number 235093.
The Bishops Hatfield Parish Magazine of November 1915, in the fifteenth list of men mobilised from Hatfield, recorded: “Stallon, Thomas Albert, Roe Green, 1st Herts. Regiment.” Then in November 1917: “Another loss we have to mourn is that of Pte. Albert Stallan 4/1st Herts. Who has been killed in action. – The first to be lost to his Father out of a long and honourable list of soldier sons.”
Awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal.
Additional Information
There is some confusion as to the spelling of the surname, The War Memorial, and Memorial book, spell the name as Stallon, the official records give the spelling as Stallan.
Brother to Arthur and William Stallan, who also died.
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mr Henry Stallan (Father) of 1, Cecil Cottages, Roe Green, received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
