Info on Stanley Alister Creek requested by school caretaker.
Stanley was born aproximately one month prior to the 1891 Census and is recorded on the census as 'Infant no name' sirname Creek born to Joseph Henry and Catherine Anne Creek of 48 Clyde Road, in the ecclesiastical parish of St Mary Magdeline in the registration district of Croydon.
Stanley was the youngest of five children at the time. He had three sisters, Pricilla 12 years, Kate 11 years and Daisy 4 years, also a brother Harry 9 years. Strangley this is the only record of Stanley in the published censuses to date as the entire family appears to have vanished from the census records for 1901 and the 1911 census details will not be released by the National Archives until 2011.
Stanley enlisted in 1/20th County of London TF (Blackheath & Woolich) Battalion and received the service number 2064.
The Battalion was part of the 47th Division taking part in the Battle of Fleurs- Courcelette on the day he died (15th Sept 1916, the opening day of the battle) he was aged 25 years. Fleurs-Courcelette was a part of the ongoing Battle of the Somme that raged from july until November 1916 and it was at Fleurs- Courcelett on 15th September 1916 that the Tank made its first apearance on the battlefield in the First World War.
Stanley is buried in grave reference 1A.D.18., London Cemetry and Extension, Longueval, France.
At the time of his death the Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives his parents address as 55, Elgin Road, Croydon, Surrey.
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