Name
Stanley Ralph Appleby
14 September 1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/03/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
16314
Coldstream Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SAILLY-SAILLISEL BRITISH CEMETERY
V. J. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Not on the Bushey memorials
Pre War
Stanley Ralph Appleby was born in Berkhamsted, Herts on 14 September 1889, the son of Richard and Ada Appleby and the youngest of four children. He was baptised on 29 December 1895 in Baldock, Herts.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at High Street, Caddington, Herts (near Luton, Beds) where his father was a police constable. By 1901 they had moved to Ware and were living at 4 Gladstone Road and his father remained a police constable. In 1911 his parents were recorded as living at Aldenham Road, Bushey, Herts. His father had then retired from the constabulary and was listed as a police pensioner, but working as caretaker of the Colne Valley Water Company offices on Aldenham Road, however, Stanley was recorded as living and working at the Hertfordshire County Asylum, Hill End, St Albans as an Asylum Attendant.
Stanley was appointed as a police constable on 25 September 1912 and is believed he was stationed in Hitchin, Herts. When war broke out, Stanley was one of several constables who wished to enlist in the army and were required to seek consent to leave the constabulary. Permission was granted in 1915.
Wartime Service
Stanley was resident in Bushey when he enlisted in Hitchin on 11 June 1915 and served with the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards as Lance Corporal, reg. no. 16314.
He was listed as wounded on the casualty list issued by the War Office on 30 October 1916 although the circumstances are not known, but he obviously recovered and re-joined his battalion.
He was killed in action, aged 27, on 14 March 1917 and was originally buried near where he fell with nine others. At the end of the war his body was exhumed and reburied in Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery, France.
He is not commemorated on any of the Bushey memorials.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £8 and pay owing of £9 17s 10d. Pension records exist but give no indication of the amount received by his mother who is named as the dependant.
The Register of Soldier's Effects records that Stanley was in the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, not 2nd Battalion as on CWGC.
Police records state that he joined the Grenadier Guards which may incorrect, or that he was later transferred to the Coldstream Guards.
Some of the Information on this profile has been provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project (see www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer, Brenda Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild, www.hertspastpolicing.org.uk
