Photo: Dorothy Hall
Photo: Dorothy Hall
Photo: Dorothy Hall
In Stanley New Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of 44457 Private Thomas Thompson serving with the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) who died 01/05/1918.
The headstone reads:-
In
Loving
Memory
of
Pte. T.
Thompson M.G.C.
beloved son of
Luke & Margaret A.
Thompson
of Stanley who died in
Lincoln Hospital 1st May 1918
Aged 24 years
On left side
Also of
Coy. Sgt. Maj.
W.A.
Henderson
beloved husband of
Frances E. Henderson
who was killed in
Action in France March
23rd 1918 aged 30 years
Son of William James and Mary Henderson, of 5, Bircham St., West Stanley; husband of Frances Elizabeth Henderson, of 26, Spring St., Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham.
William Albert Henderson is remembered in Stanley in S135.04
