Name
James Pearson Stockley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/01/1916
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
King Edward's Own Grenadiers
102nd
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 48 and 66.
Iraq
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 1 Oct 1877 and baptised on 2 Oct 1877 in Rawal Pindi, Bengal, India son of Col. Charles More and Margaret Stockley C.B. of Round Oak, Newbury, Berkshire and of Eleanor C. Stockley (stepmother). Educated at the United Services College 1891-95. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army on 8 Sep 1897. Promoted to Captain on 8 Sep 1906. He married Hilda Mary Acland (later Mrs Geake) of Lyme Regis, Dorset on 2 Jun 1914 in Newbury, Berkshire.
Wartime Service
Killed in action at Shaikh Saad, Mesopotamia.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
