Name
Eustace Tregar Stow
6/04/1877
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/02/1917
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
51955
Royal Fusiliers *1
22nd (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
I. E. 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood
Pre War
Eustace Tregar Stow was born in Forest Hill, Lon/Kent, on 6 April 1877, Son of George Edmund Stow a Surveyor for the General Post Office, and Joanna Catherine Stow (nee Scudamore). The youngest of five children, one died in infancy.
1881 Census records Eustace aged 3, living with his parents, sister Florence (12), brothers George (10) and Alan (8) at, 62, Longton Grove, Lewisham, Lon/Kent. The family had a live-in Housemaid and a Domestic Cook.
1891 Census records the family living in, Drayton Gardens, Kensington Lon/Middx, Eustace was not living with them, his whereabouts was not found.
1901 Census records Eustace aged 23, single, and employed as a Brewer’s Clerk, Lodging with, Mrs. Christina White at, 1, James Street, Paddington, Lon/Middx. His sister Florence, brothers George and Allan are also Lodging with Mrs. White.
Eustace married Olive Alice Eades the daughter of Frederick Talbot and Dorothea Alice Eades, on 24 December 1912, at, Holy Saviours Church, Croydon, Surrey. They went on to have a daughter Mary Catherine Stow, born in July 1915.
They lived at Whyteleafe, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Herts.
His father George died in March 1913, and his mother Joanna in 1914.
Wartime Service
Eustace enlisted at Mill Hill, London, posted to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) with the service number 51955.
He died on 1 February 1917, of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Olive received a widow’s pension of 18/9 a week from 20 August 1917, increased to 43/7, a week from 10 May 1918, and his effects of £4-6s-2d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £3. Her pension card records she lived at 40, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, then moved to 10, Spencer Road, Hern Hill, London, S.E. 4.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
