Ref ID: 2779
Name
Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Stanley Wadsworth. Remembered with Honour - Tyne Cot Memorial.
Description
Certificate in memory of Stanley Wadsworth, Remembered with Honour on the Tyne Cot Memorial. 'In memory of Rifleman Stanley Wadsworth, 5349, 7th Bn., Royal Irish Rifles who died on 16 August 1917'. Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Life Story
Stanley Wadsworth, son of George and Annie Wadsworth, lived at 37 Joseph Street, Shankill Road, Belfast.
The 1901 Ireland Census has Stanley living at 9 Hugh Street with his mother (a housekeeper) and brother Albert (3). By the 1911 Ireland Census, Stanley is living at 40 Richmond Street, Shankill Road, with his mother (now a handkerchief folder), his four sisters – Maud (11), Edith (5), Lena (3) and Ellen (3) and brother Albert.
Stanley was a Rifleman in the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles. He was killed in action on the 16th of August 1917. His Soldiers Effects were left to his mother.
He is remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
To remember is to honour.
Name: Stanley Wadsworth.
Service Number: 5349.
Rank: Rifleman
Battalion: 7th Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.
Address: 37 Joseph Street, Belfast.
Died: 16th August 1917.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
N/a
Classification
Certificate/Permit
