Stanley Arthur Catchpole

A Sergeant with the 11th Battalion, Stanley died on 29th of April 1918 at the age of 21. 

Stanley was born at Kessingland in 1897, a son of Edward and Ellen M. Catchpole. He was baptised at Saint Edmund’s Church, Kessingland, on 16 May 1897, and his family lived at High Street, Kessingland. In 1901 his family lived at Church Road, Kessingland, and by 1911 their address was Grass Holme, Church Road

Stanley volunteered and enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft. He joined the Suffolk Regiment, service number 13272. He was posted to the 9th Battalion and arrived in France with the battalion on 31 August 1915. Stanley was wounded and his name appears in the official casualty list, the War Office Daily List, dated 8 October 1915. He appears to have been posted to the 11th Battalion when the 9th Battalion was disbanded in France in February 1918.

On 29 April 1918 the 11th battalion were digging on the Brandhoek Line. There was intermittent shelling which led to several casualties with five men, including Stanley, being killed.