Name
Stanley Charles Hall
1 September 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/05/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
J/16257
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Princess Royal
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Navy Star, British War Medal and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
B. 12. 14.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not gone from memory, nor from love, but gone to his father's home above
UK & Other Memorials
United Reformed Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Stanley Charles Hall was born on 1 September 1895 in Linton, Cambridgeshire in 1896 to Martin and Esther Hall. The family soon moved to Bishop's Stortford and were living there on the 1901 and 1911 Censuses at 4 Northgate End.
On the 1911 Census he was living with his family at 4 Northgate End, Bishop's Stortford and working as a Grocers' Shop Assistant [at Holland & Barrett’s in North Street].
Wartime Service
He was involved in the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915 when the German armoured cruiser ‘Blücher’ was hit by his ship and sunk.
While returning from 2 days’ leave he fell from the door of a train on the London & North Western railway near Berkhamsted. He sustained fatal injuries, fracturing the base of his skull. At the inquest the coroner reported that there was “not sufficient evidence to show conclusively whether the fall was accidental or intentional”.
Medical evidence and that of a platelayer testified to the fact that death was instantaneous. In a letter to his parents Captain Cowan of HMS ‘Princess Royal’ said the loss would be greatly felt on board where he was well known and highly respected.
Additional Information
His body was brought home for burial but there was insufficient time to arrange a naval funeral. One of the mourners in the town cemetery was his brother John of the Herts Regiment, who died on the 31st July 1917 near Ypres. He is buried in Bishop's Stortford Old Cemetery. Mr Martin Hall, 4 Northgate End, Bishop's Stortford, Herts ordered the inscription for his headstone "Not gone from memory, nor from love, but gone to his father's home above".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jenny Clough
