STAMMERS Harold William

STAMMERS Harold William 

Corporal 12302, A Company, 6th Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Killed in Action, aged 27 on 18th August 1916 on THE SOMME, France

Buried at DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, Longueval, France

Wife, Flora Annie of Southend (Mumbles) Post Office.

Born Battersea, enlisted London

 Harold and Flo were married in London on 10 October 1914 and Flo returned home to Mumbles

 The folllowing year their only child, a son Benard, was born. Bernard had a girl Julie and she had two children, Esmie and Alex.

The Mumbles Press reported that immediately after the marriage, in October 1914 of Harold and Flora, the bridegroom left for Aldershot to re-join his unit.

In 1994, the editor was supplied this research by Mrs Barbara Stammers and Mrs Dinah Thomas