Name
Ernest Stanton
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
265918
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HANGARD COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. I. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hinxworth Village Memorial, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Ernest Stanton was born in Hinxworth 1892, the son of Daniel and Edith Stanton, and baptised there on 31 July 1892.
On the 1901 Census the family were living in Hinxworth next to the Three Horse Shoes Public House and his father was working as a horsekeeper on a farm. His father died in 1902 and on the 1911 Census Ernest was living at 77 Sydney Rd, Hornsey, Middlesex. with brother William, as head of the household, widowed mother Edith, brother Frederick and sister Maggie. Ernest was then working as a coffee mill assistant.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted in Hertford and served with the Hertfordshire Regiment in France from 21 January 1915 under Reg. No. 3259.
He would have fought at Cuinchy, the Battle of Festubert and Battle of Loos in 1915 and the Battles of the Somme in 1916. At some point he was promoted to Lance Corporal.
Ernest was initially listed as missing, believed killed in action on 30 March 1918, when the Battalion was attacked near Aubercourt. His body was later found when the war ended. It was exhumed and reburied in the Hanguard Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £20 10s and pay owing of £21 17s 7d. Pension cards exist but give no details of any pension received.
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 Charles Stanton who was killed in 1918 and whose name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France. Both are also named on the Hinxworth Village Memorial
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne, Jonty Wild. www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/Hertsregt
