Name
Charles Herbert Stock
10 Jul 1873
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/05/1916
43
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Hampshire Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AMARA WAR CEMETERY
XXI. D. 3.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, St John The Evangelist WW1 Bournemouth, Dorset
Pre War
Charles Herbert Stock born Teddington 10 Jul 1873, was the second son of Bernard Camidge Stock of the London Stock Exchange, and Caroline Elizabeth Herring. Educated at Aldenham School, he also was on the Stock Exchange.
He was married to Mabel Agnes Yule in Croydon on 15 July 1904 Mabel died 26 Jun 1914 as a result of car accident
He served with Honourable Artillery Company as Private 4029 (4 Dec 1899) for seven years volunteering for Foreign Service, resigning 25 Nov 1907.
Wartime Service
He re-joined the Army at outbreak of war in Aug 1914 as Private 2248, serving with BEF in France and Flanders and was wounded at Neuve Chappell, Mar ch 1915.
He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment dated 28 May 1915. He was with the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia in Jan 1916. Contracting Gastro-Enteritis while in the trenches he died 31 May 1916 near Abu-Roman Mounds. Later he was interred at Mason’s Mounds on the Tigris River.
A brother officer wrote: ”Lt. CH Stock was very popular with the men of his company (C) which he was commanding, and was also a favourite with his brother officers, who felt his loss keenly. His devotion to duty was magnificent, and it was with difficulty that he was persuaded to go to the Field Ambulance”.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
