2nd Lieutenant, Royal Fusiliers, 4th Battalion (City of London)
Died on 14 May 1917 aged 25
CWGC: "Son of Henry John and Martha Charlotte Stoaling, of "Gwydyr," Borstal Hill, Whitstable, Kent."
Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Identification
The various databases and census give different versions of Thomas Stoaling's name:
There is only one Stoaling named in the Soldiers Died database and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database - Thomas T. Stoaling.
The 1911 census, completed by Thomas Stoaling's father gives his name as Tom Ebenezer Stoaling. It could be that both T and G were misheard for E. The birth index also gives the name as Tom E. Stoaling.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Tom Ebenezer Stoaling, then aged 18, was a haberdasher's assistant living with his family at 45 Lillieshall Road, Clapham Common, where they had 11 rooms. His father, Henry John Stoaling, 50, was a draper's buyer from Wiveliscombe, Somerset; his mother, Martha Charlotte Stoaling, 62, was born in Pimlico, London. He had two half-siblings: Ethel Elizabeth Law Stoaling, 26, a typist born in Brixton, and Edgar Henry Law Stoaling, 24, a hosier's dealer, born in Brixton. Tom was born in Battersea. Susan Dorothy Crow, a 19-year-old single clerk from Marlborough, Wiltshire, boarded with the family as did Mary Jane Brooker, 46, a single woman of private means born in St Martin's Lane, London.