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Stanley was born the 28 April 1896, the son of Samuel and Annie Loft of 37 Grovehill Road and in 1911 he was a grocer's errand boy,
In Dec 1914 he enlisted in the 66th Company of the Royal Engineers as Sapper No. 59527, having been an apprentice ship's joiner at Grovehill shipyard. He received five months training in Ireland before being sent to the Dardenelles on 6 Jul 1915. He died a little more than a month later on 17 Aug 1915, aged 19, of wounds received in one of the British Army's biggest disasters, the amphibious landing at Suvla Bay in the August Offensive. Stanley was interred in Hill 10 Cemetery and is commemorated on the Beverley War Memorial and also in Queensgate Cemetery, on a monument which can no longer be seen and which is also the final resting place of his mother, Annie.
He was posthumously awarded the Victory Medal, the British War Medal and the 15 Star. Stanley's last letter home, according to newspaper reports, was on the 15 Aug 1915.
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