Stanley, Francis 1917.

Francis Albert Stanley. Died 12 February 1917
Albert was born in 1891 to father Albert and mother Mary in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire. He was the third born and had five siblings, two brothers and three sisters. By the age of ten, Albert’s family had moved from their roots in Silchester, onto Henley, Hurst and Sindlesham; a typical life of movement and upheaval to find work as a farm labourer. Albert had become a general labourer and later he and his parents lived at North Street, Sindlesham by 1911.

Albert joined the Warwicks 1st Battalion around 1914, having been previously attached to the Hussars. On the outbreak of war, he was soon on his way to France. By 1917 he had been killed on the 12 of February, during the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line in the area of the Somme.

Name: Albert Stanley
Birth Place: Henley-On-Thames, Oxon.
Residence: Wokingham
Death Date: 12 Feb 1917
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Reading
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Battalion: 1st Battalion
Number: 28297
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 27461, Hussars.

Location Information: Albert is buried at Fins New British cemetery, Sorel Le Grand. Fins is a village on the road between Cambrai and Peronne. The British Cemetery is a little south-east of the village in the district of Sorel Le Grand on the right hand side of the road to Heudicourt.
Historical Information: Fins and Sorel were occupied at the beginning of April 1917, in the German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line. They were lost on the 23 March 1918, after a stubborn defence of Sorel by the 6th K.O.S.B. and the staff of the South African Brigade; and they were regained in the following September. The first British burials at Fins were carried out in the Churchyard and the Churchyard Extension, and the New British Cemetery was not begun until July 1917.

Albert lived at North Street, Sindlesham by 1911.

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