Name
Stanley Percy Whittard
16 Sep 1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/08/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
235109
Lincolnshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, We are not aware of any memorials in Colney Hatch
Pre War
Stanley Percy Whittard was born at Colney Heath on 16 Sep 1887 (baptised 9 Nov 1892 at Friern Barnet, Middx.) to Alfred Henry Whittard, glover and hosier, and Charlotte Elizabeth (nee).
1891 Census the family of parents, Alfred (born 1884), Nellie (born1885), Willie (born 1885) and Stanley, were living at Hillside Farm, Friern Barnet along sister in law Eliza Smith, Charlie Bradfield a servant and Charles Bowen a labourer.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Louisa M (born 1879), Leonard (born 1881, hosiers assistant), Alfred (hosiery cashier), Nellie, Willie (stationers assistant), Stanley, Gordon Hedley (born 1894), May Evelyn (born 1896), Olive Sanford V (born 1898) and Athol Douglas (born 1900) at Osborne House, Osborne Lane, Little Heath, North Mimms. Also recorded was Fred Tebbs, a cowman on farm.
On the 1911 Census Stanley (a stockbroker’s clerk)was living with his parents, Louisa M, Nellie, Willie (bank clerk), Gordon Hedley ( hosier assistant), May Evelyn, Olive Sanford V, and Athol Douglas, Dora Cathleen (born 1903) and Kenneth Ivan (born 1905) still at Osborne House, Osborne Lane, Little Heath.
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for Staley. However, he enlisted at Hertford as a Territorial Soldier in the Hertfordshire Regiment and given service number 5781, probably around Dec 1915/Jan 1916. Stanley service number became 266931 when the Hertfordshire Regiment as part of the Territorial Force was renumbered in early 1917.
At some time he was promoted to Corporal. He would probably joined the Hertfordshires in the later phases of the Somme Battle and have been present during the Battle of Paschendaele (3rd Ypres) in 1917. In 1918 he would have been defending against the German Spring Offensive over the Somme Battlefield. Around Apr 1918 1/1st Battalion Herts Regiment and 1/4th Battalion Lincolnshires, were both much reduced in strength and operated with other similar units as 39th Divisional Composite Battalion, following this period Stanley may have transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment as service number 235109. Stanley was reported killed in action during fighting near Bapaume in the Second Battles of the Somme 1918.
His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial.
Additional Information
A pension of 15 shillings /week was paid to his mother, No record of War Gratuity etc. found.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Martin Cope, Jonty Wild
