Flintshirewarmemorials.com
Name Stanley Campbell
Regiment 16th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Service Rank and Number Sgt C/838
Military Cemetery/Memorial Thiepval Memorial
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial Pier and Face 13A and 13B
Country of Cemetery/Memorial France
Medals Awarded Victory, British War and 1915 Star medals
Date and Circumstances of Death Died 6th November 1916 aged 26
Biographical Details Known He was born in 1890 in the parish of St Oswalds in Chester, Cheshire. The 1911 census records the family living at Black Diamond Street, Newton Chester. Listed in the household are -
Stanley's widowed mother Harriet 50,
brother John James 22 a furniture porter,
sister Elizabeth 15 a servant,
boarder John Miller 25 a butcher's assistant
and twins Leslie and Jessie Edge 7 year old nephew and niece
plus a 6 year old nephew Wallice Edge.
Stanley himself was recorded as being a 20 year old apprentice pawnbroker.
Previous census returns tell us that Harriet Campbell's maiden name was Edge and her husband was John Campbell who had been born in Rhuddlan. He was already dead by 1901
Stanley enlisted on October 6 1914 and the address he gave on enlistment was Cefn Gader. (We haven't yet located where that was). He lists members of his family on enlistment and we see that his mother still lived at 35 Black Diamond Street, Chester. His sister Elizabeth was also still there but was now Elizabeth Roach. His brother John James was living in Scotland Road, Old Chesterton, Cambridge. Stanley states on his enlistment papers that he was the manager of a pawnbrokers.
After his death his mother received his personal possessions which included a Post Office Savings Book, registered at Mold Post Office.
Regiment 16th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Service Rank and Number Sgt C/838
Military Cemetery/Memorial Thiepval Memorial
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial Pier and Face 13A and 13B
Country of Cemetery/Memorial France
Medals Awarded Victory, British War and 1915 Star medals
Date and Circumstances of Death Died 6th November 1916 aged 26
Biographical Details Known He was born in 1890 in the parish of St Oswalds in Chester, Cheshire. The 1911 census records the family living at Black Diamond Street, Newton Chester. Listed in the household are -
Stanley's widowed mother Harriet 50,
brother John James 22 a furniture porter,
sister Elizabeth 15 a servant,
boarder John Miller 25 a butcher's assistant
and twins Leslie and Jessie Edge 7 year old nephew and niece
plus a 6 year old nephew Wallice Edge.
Stanley himself was recorded as being a 20 year old apprentice pawnbroker.
Previous census returns tell us that Harriet Campbell's maiden name was Edge and her husband was John Campbell who had been born in Rhuddlan. He was already dead by 1901
Stanley enlisted on October 6 1914 and the address he gave on enlistment was Cefn Gader. (We haven't yet located where that was). He lists members of his family on enlistment and we see that his mother still lived at 35 Black Diamond Street, Chester. His sister Elizabeth was also still there but was now Elizabeth Roach. His brother John James was living in Scotland Road, Old Chesterton, Cambridge. Stanley states on his enlistment papers that he was the manager of a pawnbrokers.
After his death his mother received his personal possessions which included a Post Office Savings Book, registered at Mold Post Office.
