Name
Stanley Albert Angell
June 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/11/1916
23 years
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
20006
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2C
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Breachwood Green Baptist Church Memorial, Breachwood Green, St Mary's Church Memorial, Kings Walden, Not on the Welwyn memorials
Pre War
Stanley Albert Angell was born in Breachwood Green, nr Kings Walden, Welwyn, Hertfordshire in 1893 the son of Albert Angell (b 1862 in Breachwood Green) a Carpenter and Elizabeth Angell (nee Timberlake) (b 1862 in Aylesbury, Bucks). He was one of ten children.
The 1901 Census records Stanley aged 7 living with his parents, sisters Mabel 15, Maggie 12, Florrie 10 Hilda 5, Jesse 1 month old and brothers Percy 13 and Frank 2, in Breachwood Green, Herts. His father was working as a Journeyman Carpenter.
Stanley attended Breachwood Green Infants, Junior and Middle school, leaving in June 1907 when he turned 14 years.
The family remained in Breachwood Green in 1911 and were living at The Meadows. Stanley, then aged 17, was working as a Grocer's Boy and living with his parents, brothers Percy 23, Frank 12, sisters Grace 10, Winnie 1, and Evelyn 3,
Wartime Service
Stanley enlisted in Bedford and was initially posted to the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment with the service No 20006. He was sent to France on 3 November 1915. At some point he was transferred to the 6th Battalion.
He was killed in action on 16 November 1916 whilst entrenched near Waggon Road, the name given to the road running north of the village of Serre, during an attack on Munich Trench.
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
Part of 112th Brigade, 37th Division. (Part of the K1 Kitchener’s army).
His father received a war gratuity of £7 10s and pay owing of £10 16s 0d.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Brenda Palmer
Paul Johnson, June Colegrove, Mark Morgan, Brenda Palmer
