Name
George Henry Stapleton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
George appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. Parish and census records provide only limited information. The 1901 census lists Ruby, aged eight, and a George Henry, aged three, as the children of Annie Elizabeth Stapleton (with George born in Finsbury Park and Annie and Ruby in Ipswich). No marriage record was found, but school admissions record Ruby’s father as William, so it is likely that George’s father was William Stapleton. If he is the right man, then George was born in 1897 or 1898.
The 1911 census records Annie as living around Little Green, being married for fifteen years and having had five children, of whom two had died. Another son was born later. It has only been possible to name four of these children at this time: Ruby (b c1893), George Henry (b c1898), Cecil John (b c1902) and Alfred Edward (b 1917).
George is recorded in the Parish Magazine of February 1917 as enlisting and serving in the Transports, and the Parish Magazine of June 1917 records him as serving in the Connaught Rangers. He would have been about nineteen years old.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
