Name
Charles Stanton
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
9435
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 28-29
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Hinxworth Village Memorial
Pre War
Charles Stanton was born in Hinxworth, Herts in 1889, the son of Daniel and Edith Stanton, and baptised on 2 June 1889 at Hinxworth.
On the 1891 Census the family were living in High Street, Hinxworth, were his father was working as an agricultural labourer. They remained in Hinxworth in 1901 at which time Charles was a 12 year old scholar.
His father died in 1902 and on the 1911 Census Charles Stanton was a serving soldier with the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment stationed at St George's Bermuda.
His mother later gave her address on the pension card as 70 Sydney Road Hornsey.
Wartime Service
Charles was already a serving soldier at the outbreak of war, having enlisted in Hertford, and served with the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. The Battalion left Dover, arriving in Zeebrugge, Belgium on 6 October 1914. They were soon in action, suffering their first casualties on the Menin Road, near Ypres less than two weeks later.
He would have been in action in 1915 at the Battles of Neuve-Chappelle & Festubert, action at Givenchy and the Battle of Loos, followed by the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and the Battle of Arras, Battle of Ypres in 1917.
At some point he was promoted to acting Corporal but was killed in action on 22 March 1918 during the Battle of St Quentin. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.
Additional Information
A war gratuity of £21 was divided between his mother Edith who received £15 15s and sister-in-law Mabel Stanton who received £5 5s. His pay owing of £10 8s 2d was divided between his mother, brother William and sister-in-law Mabel Stanton (for the child's benefit). The child was his niece Eileen, daughter of his brother Frederick. A pension card exists but gives no indication of any amount paid.
Brother to Frederick Stanton who was killed in action on 8 March 1917 and whose name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Brother to Ernest Stanton who was killed in action on 30 March 1918 and is buried in the Hanguard Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Both are also named on the Hinxworth Village Memorial
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne, www.bedfordregiment.org.uk
