Born St Pancras. L/Sgt. Died of wounds, France and Flanders, 8/10/18 at 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, France. L/Sgt Stanton is buried in the St Venant Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Lance Serjeant Alfred Herbert Stanton was born on 6 July 1897 in Highgate Road, Kentish Town, a son of John Stanton and Martha Stanton, née White. His father was a bricklayer/scaffolder. He was admitted into the Burghley Road School, Camden on 27 August 1900 and the family were living at 24 Spencer Road, Kentish Town. They were still there at the time of the 1901 census but the 1911 census shows the family of two parents and ten children were living in 4 rooms at 8 College Lane, Kentish Town.
He enlisted at Camden into the 19th (County of London) Battalion (St Pancras), London Regiment and was allocated the service number 5107, which would indicate a joining date somewhere between 13 November 1915 and 25 January 1916. He entered France on 17 June 1916 and in 1917 his service number was changed to 611743. He died of his wounds, aged 21 years on 8 October 1918 at the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station that was located at the old, badly shelled, St. Venant Lunatic Asylum and was buried in grave IV. B. 7. at the St. Venant Communal Cemetery, Rue de Saint-Floris, Saint-Venant, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. On 21 June 1919 his mother received his £3-7s-4d back pay together with a £16-10s-0d war gratuity. He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.
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