Name
Stanley William Beament
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
C/9152
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
“D” Coy. 9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 61 to 64
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green, All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Mill, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
Pre War
Stanley was born in Croxley on 26 September 1897, to William and Fanny Beament of 123 New Road.
He was one of nine children. Like his older brother Jack, Stanley had been a member of the Church Lads’ Brigade, but Stanley enlisted later and so did not join the 16th (Church Lads’) Battalion like his brother but ended up in a different Battalion of the KRRC.
He worked at Croxley Mill and is listed on the Dickinson memorial.
Recorded as enlisting in London.
Wartime Service
Rifleman Stanley William Beament, served in D Company, XVI Platoon, 9th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and was 20 when he died. He had been wounded twice previously. On 14 July 1916 he was wounded in the shoulder while serving with the 20th (Pioneer) Battalion of the KRRC near to High Wood.
He was taken to a base hospital at Rouen and, by an amazing coincidence, found himself in the same ward as his brother Jack who had also been wounded in the shoulder at High Wood. Stanley was again wounded and died of wounds between 21st and 27th March 1918. (The CWGC gives his date of death as 21st March 1918 and the Red Cross List of Wounded and Missing records that he was reported missing on 21st March 1918).
He had probably been wounded on 21st at the Battle of St. Quentin near Essigny on the first day of the German Spring Offensive.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson Croxley Green in the First World War, Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014
