Leonard Victor Stanley
Service Number: 8396
Rank: Company Quartermaster Serjeant
Unit: 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment
KIA: 12th June 1918, WW1
Burial: Etaples Military Cemetery, Plot LXVIII. E. 16, Étaples, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Additional Information:

• Photo Requested: Didn’t realize when we visited Wareham that Leonard was a relative and buried in the same cemetery.
• Family Connections:
  • Leonard’s younger brother, Gordon, was killed 11 weeks earlier in 1918 at the Somme.
  • Leonard and Gordon’s 1st cousin, Joseph Leonard Stanley, was KIA and is remembered at Le Touret.

Memorial IDs:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 10897878
• Commonwealth War Graves ID: 8396

Relation: My family relation

Gordon Alexander Stanley
Service Number: 96756
Rank: Private
Unit: 4th Battalion, Tank Corps
KIA: 22nd March 1918, WW1
MISSING Remembered Pozieres Memorial Panel 94, 80300 Ovillers-la-Boisselle, France

Additional Information:

• Family Connections:
  • Gordon’s elder brother Leonard, was killed 11 weeks later 73 miles away

• Memorial IDs:
  • FindaGrave ID: 16082000
  • Commonwealth War Graves ID: 96756

Relation: My family relation