CLEVELAND STREET

 

Martham Villa Cleveland Street  

WHEELER Jack

Rank : Trooper Jack Reginald Wheeler
Regiment : Household Battalion. Formerly 4086, 1st Life Guards.
Service number : 542
Conflict : WW1
Date of death : Killed in action aged 19 on 3rd May 1917
Buried : Commemorated on Arras Memorial, France, Bay 1.
Birthplace : Wollaston, resident and enlisted Stourbridge
Relatives : Son of Thomas Henry and Emma Wheeler, of Martham Villa, Cleveland St., Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Memorial : Stourbridge St John's Church
Also appears on : Stourbridge War Memorial.
Credits : Researched by The Black Country Society.

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Jack Wheeler attended Wollaston C. of E. School and he was a keen Scout, the only King’s Scout in the district.  He was also a member of St. John’s Church Choir and a member of St. John Ambulance.  He worked as a draughtsman at Messrs Hill and Smith of Brierley Hill.  

He enlisted in November 1915 and went to France in November 1916 with the Household Battalion.  They were engaged in the Battle of Arras in April 1917 and Trooper Jack Wheeler was killed in action on the 3rd May.  

He is also commemorated at St. John’s church, where his parents provided a special memorial to him for the church in the form of a handsomely carved Bishop’s Chair.

Jack Wheeler has no known grave.

 

28 Cleveland Street 

HINGLEY Harry

Rank : Private
Regiment : C Company 1st/7th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Service number : 2594
Conflict : WW1
Date of death : 16th July 1916 aged 20
Buried : Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 5A and 6C.
Relatives : Son of William Henry and Mary Ann Hingley, 28 Cleveland St., Stourbridge
Memorial : Stourbridge War Memorial
Credits : Researched by The Black Country Society.

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Harry Hingley was the son of Mr and Mrs Hingley of 13 Cleveland Street, Stourbridge. He was employed at Boulton and Mills Glassworks at Audnam and then moved to 28 Cleveland Street.  

He volunteered for the Worcester Territorials in 1914 and enlisted in the 1st/7th Battalion.  They went overseas in March 1915, had front line service in quiet sectors of the Western Front and in June 1916 were ready for the big attack on the Somme.  They were in reserve for the first day of the battle on the 1st July, but came into the front line at Ovillers for the second phase of the battle.  The village was eventually captured after some fierce fighting and heavy casualties.  

Private Harry Hingley was among those killed in action on the 16th July. 

Harry Hingley has no known grave.

 

 

1a Cleveland Street 

JENKINS Arthur

Rank : Private
Regiment : 1st/7th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Service number : 2572
Conflict : WW1
Date of death : 1st October 1915 aged 23
Buried : Hebuterne Military Cemetery, France, Grave I. J. 17.
Relatives : Son of Arthur Edward and Elizabeth Ann Jenkins, 3 Clark St., Stourbridge
Memorial : Stourbridge War Memorial
Credits : Researched by The Black Country Society.

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Native of Newport, Monmouthshire.

Arthur Jenkins came from Newport, Monmouthshire, and lived at 1a Cleveland Street, Stourbridge.  He attended Hill St. Council School, although his name is not recorded on the school memorial.  He was a member of the St. Thomas’s Bible Class and of the Stourbridge Swimming Club.  

By 1914 he was employed at the Durbar Engineering works, and he volunteered at a rally held in Stourbridge Town Hall on the 14th August.

 He enlisted in the Worcester Territorials and joined the 1/7th Battalion.  They crossed to France in the 48th Division on 31st March 1915 and were stationed at Ploegsteert near Armentieres until July.  Then they moved to the former French sector on the Somme front near Hebuterne.

Although this was a quiet area, there were still raids to be carried out and enemy shelling to be endured.  

Private Arthur Jenkins was seriously wounded and died on the 1st October.