Name
Stanley Collier
8 May 1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/06/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
234001(PO)
Royal Navy
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LYNESS ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY
F. 33A.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Stanley Collier was born Hastoe, Herts on 6 May 1888 to George Collier and Annie (nee Dunton).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, John (born 1884), Alice (born 1885), James (born 1887), Stanley, and Annie (born 1891) were living at Vicarage Road, Wigginton, Berkhamsted.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, John, Alice, James, Stanley, Annie and Mary (born 1893) were living at London Road, Wigginton.
Stanley enlisted in the Royal Navy at Portsmouth on the 6th May, 1906 seaman 234001(PO) for 12 years service and was posted to numerous establishments.
On the 1911 Census Stanley’s parents with Alice, Annie and Mary were living at 45 King Street, Tring.
Wartime Service
On the outbreak of the Great War Stanley was at HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, the Torpedo school and on 13 Aug 1914 was posted to HMS Halcyon another section of the Torpedo Establishment.
Following a spell at Portsmouth he joined HMS Hampshire, a Devonshire Class Armoured Cruiser on 25 Jun 1915, being at the Battle of Jut (31 May – 1 Jun 1916) and returning to UK the ship was detailed to sail from Scapa Flow to Archangel, Russia carrying Field Marshal Kitchener. The ship struck a mine in Heavy seas off Mainland, Orkney on 5 Jun 1916. Stanley was among the 737 dead of 749 people lost.
His remains were among those recovered and is buried in Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney,
Additional Information
His mother, Ann, later lived at 68 Brook Street, Tring.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
