Name
Stanley Catchpole
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/06/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
10415
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Ickleford memorials, St Lawrence Church War Memorial, Bradfield, Essex
Pre War
Stanley George Catchpole was born in 1896 in Ickleford, Herts, the son of George and Cecilia Catchpole and one of six children, although one had died by 1911.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Grove Road, Hitchin, Herts where his father was working as a Millwright Engineer. By 1911 they had moved to Heath Road, Bradfield, Manningtree, Essex where his father was a licensed victualler (at the Ram and Hoggett Inn).
His father died in late 1911.
Wartime Service
Stanley enlisted in Colchester and served with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in France from 12 May 1915. He joined the Battalion when they were in position at near Reninge, to the north west of Ypres.
He was killed on 13 June 1915 during the battle for Hill 60. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £1 4s 8d. She also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
His brother Frank Robert Catchpole served with the Royal Engineers but survived the war and was discharged on 14 December 1918.
On the 1939 Register his mother was listed as the licensed victualler of the Ram & Hoggett Inn in Bradfield, Tendring, Essex.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer
