Stanley Frank Disney

A Private with the 1/4th Battalion, Stanley died on 3rd of February 1916 at the age of 21. 

Stanley was born at Lowestoft in 1894, a son of Albert and Ida Disney. In 1901 his family lived at 49 Haward Street. This was still their home in 1911 and Stanley worked as a cooper. Later his parents lived at 11 Avondale Road and then at 80 Lorne Park Road. 

Stanley enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft in 1912. He joined the Suffolk Regiment and served with E Company (Lowestoft) of the 1/4th Battalion. He was a signaller. 

Stanley was mobilized when the war began and he arrived in France with the Battalion on 8 November 1914. 

The 1/4th Battalion moved to Loos on 30 January 1916. On 3 February their positions were heavily shelled all day, at points the shells were falling at a rate of 40 to 50 per minute. The Battalion’s casualties on 3 February were 15, including Stanley who was killed. The Battalion’s War Diary assigned the low number of casualties to the fact that the majority of the men were able to shelter in deep dug-outs. 

Stanley's father was killed in an air raid in World War Two.