Name
Leonard Stanley (*1)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
191777
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Venus
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MAALA CEMETERY
C. 194
Yemen
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial (*1), Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans (*1)
Pre War
*1 Served as Leonard Stanley but appears as Leonard Stanley Gray on St Albans memorials.
His mother was Mrs Clara Gray (nee Stanley) - we think Charlotte Clara or Clara Charlotte Gray with her address, given at his time of death, as 21 Camp View Road, St Albans.
His mother's father was Levi Stanley and she married William Gray on 2nd February 1895 in Sandridge, Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
RN Casualty Lists - 04/10/1918 - Venus, old light cruiser - STANLEY, Leonard, Able Seaman, 191777, illness - Note Log of 01/10/1918 records At Aden: Discharged 34 ratings to hospital - 6 men died of illness that month on Venus - Log of 04/10/1918 11.45 pm
Additional Information
*1 Leonard Stanley appears as L S Gray on the City Memorial and Leonard Stanley Gray on the Town Hall Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
