STAVELEY Harold Private 83240

SKR/DAT/IP/63924

STAVELEY Harold Private 83240

2000-2024

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Surname: STAVELEY;

Forename(s): Harold;

Initials: H;

Number: 83240;

Rank: Private;

Enlisted in: Chesterfield;

Enlistment Date: 24-Oct-1916;

Resided in: Sheffield;

Previous Number: 64685;

Previous Regiment: Notts & Derby Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 09-Jan-1917;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 228 Coy;

Discharge Date: 16-Sep-1918;

Silver War Badge? B66158;

Other Data: War Office weekly Casualty lists 23/10/1917
disch KR xvi (wounds) aged 23 yrs 10m
photographs (2) (in groups) GS Archives

83240 Private STAVELEY, Harold, for the record. Harold was born 29/6/1894 (probably at 3 Cross Lane - 1901 census), Dronfield, Derbyshire, He was the 5th child of John Henry And Mary Elizabeth (nee BEAUMONT) STAVELEY. With parents dead by 1906, Harold lived with married sister Lucy (nee STAVELEY) WEBSTER at 21 Mill Lane, Dronfield. On conscription, Lucy became his Next of Kin and the previously attached Belton Park photo was sent to her address. As part of 39 Division, Harold was involved in the Battle for the Menin Road Ridge, begun in the early hours of 20/9/1917. Within 36 hours his right knee was blasted by shell fragments. Post war, he married Annie Isabel SMALLBONES. They lived at 20 Mill Lane, Dronfield (next door to his former address), until the September 1957 offer of 39 Sycamore Avenue, Dronfield. Occupationally, He was a Spindle Grinder on conscription; post war, a Core Oven Attendant in a Dronfield iron foundry. He died 5/9/1965 in Chesterfield Royal Hospital. His remains share a family grave in Dronfield Cemetery.
64685 Forest Derby
Transferred MGC 9.1.17
List H A 14387 Shr Wd R Knee Pty Sur Adm 12 Gen H Rouen
24.9.17 nofk 6.10.17
P 82?49 Cl 12 Gen H. Rouen wime 2.10.17 w Penet Wd R Knee
Seriously ill nofk 11.10.17
List Cl 339 Wd Adm 22.9.17 Authy OC. 133rd F A 22.9.17
“ [List] HW 813 Pene Wd Kn R Ser ill (unchanged) in 12 St Louis
Gen H Rouen w/e 7.10.17 nofk 22.10.17
List HW 342 Pen Knee R Ser ill (unchanged) in 12 Gen (St Louis
USA) Hos Rouen w/e 14.10.17 nofk 25.10.17
List HW 878 Pen Wd Knee R Ser ill (improving) in
12 (St. Louis USA) Gen Hos Rouen w/e 21-10-17
List HW 913 Pene. Wd. R. Knee, Ser. Ill (imp) in 12
(St Louis) U.S.A. Gen. Hos. Rouen w/e 28-10-17
List P 90059 C.l. 12 Gen. H. Rouen w/ief 2-11-17
No longer seriously ill

Died1965;

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