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Stanley Victor Rix

Stanley Victor Rix
Stanley Victor Rix CREDIT: Lowestoft Journal

Formerly a Private with the 1/4th Battalion, Stanley died on 13th of January 1920 at the age of 23. 

Stanley was born at Lowestoft in 1897, a son of Thomas Sidney and Elizabeth Rix. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 21 July 1897 and his family lived at 78 Tennyson Road. This was still the family home in 1911 when Stanley worked as a doctor’s errand boy. Later his parents lived at 62 Saint Peter’s Street. 

Stanley enlisted in the 1/4th Suffolk Regiment on 22 May 1913. He was mobilized when the war began. He arrived in France, with the battalion on 8 November 1914. 

Stanley was wounded at Nueve Chapelle in March 1915, possibly on the 12th, and treated at Bingham Hospital. Stanley was discharged, because of his wounds, on 18 January 1916 and he was awarded the Silver War Badge.

Stanley died from tuberculosis which, according to his pension record card, was the result of a gunshot wound and thus attributable to his war service. 

Lived at

Stanley Rix
62
St Peters Street
Lowestoft
United Kingdom

52.4819888, 1.752488

CountryOfService
United Kingdom
BranchService
Army
Regiment
Suffolk Regiment
ServiceNumber
1737
Burial/Memorial
United Kingdom
LOWESTOFT (NORMANSTON DRIVE) CEMETERY
K. 42.

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webmaster Sun, 10/29/2023 - 13:34

FYII showed my friend (not on Facebook) a picture of her relative (Rix St Peter's street) and she knew nothing about him and surprisingly he had similar features to her son. - Karen Harris

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