Name
Stanley Beale Camp
23/09/1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/05/1915
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14076
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Ashwell Village Memorial, St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldenham, St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Aldenham, Plaque on private House, Landor Cottages, 4 Back Lane, Letchmore Heath*1, Letchmore Heath Village Memorial
Pre War
Stanley Beale Camp was born on 23 September 1896, in Aldenham, Herts, son of Edward and Martha (nee Beale) Camp.
1901 Census records Stanley aged 4, living with his parents, and three siblings at, 4, Lander Cottages, Letchmore Heath, Herts.
His mother Martha died in 1906, aged 48 years.
At the age of 12, Stanley was Baptised on 26 March 1909, at St Mary’s Church, Ashwell, Herts, with his elder brother Edward. (14).
1911 Census records Stanley aged 14, and his brother Ted (William) living with their late mother’s brother Isaac Beale, his wife Annie and their two children in, Station Road, Ashwell, Herts. Stanley’s occupation is given as a Stable Lad.
Wartime Service
Stanley enlisted at Watford, Herts, in August 1914, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 14076,
He was Killed in Action on 18 May 1915, aged 18 years. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial to the missing in France. Panel 10 & 11.
*1 There is a Plaque above the front door of his old house, Lander Cottages, Back Lane, Letchmore Heath, which reads “LEST WE FORGET” STANLEY BEALE CAMP and TED CAMP LEFT THIS HOUSE TO FIGHT FOR THIRE KING & COUNRTY ON AUG 24 1914 & NOV 15 1915 THEY FELL IN ACTION IN FRANCE STANLEY MAY 18 1915 AGED 18 YEARS TED OCT 9 1918 AGED 24 YEARS"
Additional Information
The value of his effects was £4-7s-3d, Pay Owing and £3, War Gratuity which went to his father Edward Camp. His elder brother Private 55043 William (Ted) Camp of the Manchester Regiment died on 9 October 1918, of wounds received in Action.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
