Name
Elias (Jack) George Stockham
29th July 1877
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/03/1919
42 years
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
22864
Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RADWELL (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Private Headstone and Inscription
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints Church Memorial, Little Munden. Not on the Radwell memorials. Special Memorial in All Saints Churchyard, Radwell, Hertfordshire.
Pre War
Elias was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 29th July 1877, son of John Benjamin Stockham a Licenced Victualler and Mary Ann Stockham (nee Durnden).
Baptised on 29th August 1877, in St Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. His father dies in 1879.
1881 Census records Elias aged 3, living with his widowed mother a Licenced Victualler in Castle Gate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. His mother dies in 1889.
1891 Census records Elias aged 13, at school, living with his Uncle & Aunt George & Maud Stockham, Innkeepers in Castle Gate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Elias married Julia Perkins in the Parish Church in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on 21st January 1901.
1901 Census records him as married and a Grocer living in Castle Gate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Then in Potters Hall, Little Munden, Herts.
By 1911 Elias and Julia have two sons Kenneth J. 9, and Alan J. 6, now living in Potters Green, High Cross, Nr Ware, Hertfordshire. His occupation is given as a Poultry Farmer and finally Radwell Bury Farm, Baldock, Herts.
Wartime Service
On enlisting Elias George J. Stockham was posted to the Army Veterinary Corps, with the service number 22864.
Elias died on 19th March 1919, cause of death is not known.
Additional Information
His effects of £13 were left to his wife Julia. On 27th November 1918 King George V conferred the “Royal” prefix to the Corps in recognition of the work the AVC carried out in WW1.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, Stuart Osborne
