Name
Sidney Lowles Stapley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
7955
Royal Sussex Regiment
2nd Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
According to his Navy Service Record Sidney Stapley was born at Brighton on 4th February 1886. He was the younger of two sons born to John and Catherine Stapley. John worked as a Commercial Clerk, and in the 1891 Census the family was recorded living at 11 North Street, Westminster. By 1901 John had died and Catherine had returned to Brighton with Sidney, who at this time worked as a Butcher’s Boy.
Sidney’s Navy Service Record indicated that he had joined the Royal Navy in 1902 and first saw service on 5th December aboard HMS “Duke of Wellington I”, a shore base, barracks and training establishment at Portsmouth. However on 20th March 1903 he was discharged as being Unsuitable for Service.
The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine recorded that on 27th August 1914 a daughter was born to Sidney and May Rose Stapley. Sidney and May married at Watford in the summer of 1915. In the 1911 Census May was recorded as employed as a Servant by Samuel and Elizabeth Higgins of “Ryaber”, Abbots Road, Abbots Langley.
The Leavesden Parish Records of October 1914 showed that Sidney was a Reservist (having served previously) and had “joined HM Forces”, and in December 1914 reported that he had been wounded.
Sidney was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in November 1914, serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. His Medal Roll Card indicated that he had enlisted on 12th August 1914. However he was Discharged Disabled as a result of wounds on 30th June 1915, and this was reported in the Parish Magazine in August 1915.
Sidney Stapley survived the War.
Additional Information
Discharged Disabled & Wounded
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
