Name
Frederick Stanton
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/03/1917
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
15308
Royal Field Artillery
58th Battery, 35th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 A and 8 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Hinxworth Village Memorial, Not on the Baldock memorials
Pre War
Frederick Stanton was born in 1882 in Hinxworth, Nr Baldock, Herts the son of Daniel and Edith Stanton, and baptised at Hinxworth on 14 May 1882. On the 1891 Census the family were living in High Street, Hinxworth, were his father was working as an agricultural labourer. Although his family remained in Hinxworth in 1901, Frederick had joined the army and was listed as a 20 year old soldier/gunner at the barracks of the Royal Horse Artillery at Woolwich.
His father died in 1902 and Frederick, having left the army, was living with his widowed mother and siblings William, Maggie and Ernest at 77 Sydney Road, Hornsey, Middlesex, where he was working as a general labourer.
He married Mabel Emeline Best on 24 March 1913 at St Luke's Church, Kingston on Thames, Surrey and gave his address as 17 Acre Road. Their daughter Eileen Florence Lucy was born on 24 February 1914 and baptised on 12 April 1914 at St Luke's Church, Kingston on Thames. They were then living at 70 Sydney Road, Hornsey,
His widow later lived at 32, Sydney Rd., Hornsey, London.
Wartime Service
Frederick Stanton had been a serving soldier with the Royal Field Artillery (see above) and would have been recalled on the outbreak of war. He enlisted in London and served with the 58th Battery/35th Brigade as a gunner with the Royal Field Artillery, serving in France from 19 August 1914.
He was killed in action on 8 March 1917 but has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £15 and pay owing of £3 1s 4d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week plus a child allowance of 5s, totalling 18s 9d, later increased to £1 12s 9d a week from 14 May 1918.
Brother to Charles Stanton who was killed in 1918 and whose name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France. Brother to Ernest Stanton who died on 30 March 1918 and is buried in Hanguard Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Both are also named on the Hinxworth Village Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne
