Leatherhead War Memorials : Stanley Yardley

Town Memorial P10.R4.C2 *

Pte
Stanley Yardley
8th [7th*] Royal West Surrey Regt.,
Albert
June [July*] 1 1916

Taken Not Given, Liam Sumption, L&DLHS
* The War Memorial is incorrect:

• Stanley Yardley died not on 1 June 1916. Like so many in his and other battalions he perished a month later on 1 July 1916 - the first day of the Somme.
• He was serving with the 7th Bn., not the 8th.

He was born in Battersea, enlisted at Guildford and was 'killed in action'.¹

The Leatherhead Parish Magazine of February 1916 states that he had been wounded ². What happened to Stanley Yardley and his comrades of the 7th Battalion, will be told on Reginald Gray's page.³

Sources
1. Soldiers who died in the Great War (Queen's volume): Queen's Regimental Museum, then at Clandon Park, Surrey
2. Parish Magazine of St Mary & St Nicholas , Leatherhead: February 1916 issue
3. WO95/2214 War Diary of 7th Bn., Queen's: PRO

YARDLEY, STANLEY Age: 26
Rank: Private
7th Bn., The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.)
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Service No: G/4892
Son of Jessie Yardley, of "Garlands", Leigh Road, Wimbourne, Dorset.
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. E. 24.
Cemetery: COMBLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

He is listed on the Church Lads Brigade Tryptich in All Saints Church

He is not listed in the May 1915 issue of Leatherhead Parish Magazine among those serving.

Links
Map showing Albert and Combles
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry
The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment

the website editor would like to add further information on this casualty
e.g. a photo of him, of his grave and of any recollections within his family

page last updated 30 Jul 2004