Name
Stanley Hemming
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/04/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
33494
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 41.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Christ Church Memorial, Watford, Watford Grammar School Memorial, Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance
Pre War
Son of James and Martha (nee DALTON) HEMMING of Watford.
His parents married 1889 in the West Bromwich, Staffs, district. James died 1938 in the Watford district aged 71; Martha died 1946 in the Hendon, Middx, district aged 78.
Stanley was born 12 April 1896 in Willesden Green, Middx, and baptised 11 December 1898 at St Barnabas’, Clapham Common, London. He attended first Alexandra Infants’ School, Watford; then Callowland Board School, Watford, from 12 January 1903 to 3 September 1907; then Alexandra School, Watford, from 4 September 1907 to 30 July 1908; finally Watford Grammar School from 14 September 1908 to March 1914. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Leavesden, Herts, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 14 he lived in Watford, with his parents and six siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action whilst being relieved from the front line near Loos Crassier. He had been recommended for a commission.
Additional Information
The published Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance entry reads:
“HEMMING, STANLEY. School period: September, 1908, to March, 1914. Lance Corporal, 8th Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in attack near Loos, 19th April, 1917: had been recommended for a commission.”
There is a brief article about and a Death announcement for Stanley in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 12 May 1917; plus In Memoriams in the issues dated 20 April 1918 and 19 April 1919. Unfortunately, Stanley’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
