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CLIFTON STREET

 

9 Clifton Street  

HAND John Alfred Stanton

Rank : Gunner
Regiment : H.M.S. Vanguard Royal Marine Artillery
Service number : RMA12366
Conflict : WW1
Date of death : 9th July 1917 aged 27
Buried : Commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, England, Panel 27.
Relatives : Son of Edward Henry and Ellen Hand, of Wordsley, Staffordshire; husband of Lilian Hand, 9 Clifton St., Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Memorial : Stourbridge King Edward VI Grammar School WW1 Memorial

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John Alfred Stanton Hand (known as Jack) was 14 years of age when he entered King Edward VI Grammar School on 12th September 1904. At the time of his admission to the school his father is recorded as Edward Henry Hand, a Commercial Traveller and the family resided at 30 Alwen Street, Wordsley. John had previously been educated at Wordsley Council School. He left King Edward VI Grammar School on 30th July 1906.

He lived with his wife, Lilian, at 9 Clifton Street.

He served as a Gunner on the battleship HMS Vanguard.

She was destroyed by an accidental ammunition explosion shortly before midnight on 9th July 1917 whilst she was lying at anchor at Scapa Flow. She sank almost immediately with the loss of over 800 lives.

 John Alfred Stanton Hand was recorded among those lost.

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11 Clifton Street 

BENNETT George

Rank : Corporal
Regiment : 72nd Field

Ambulance

Royal Army

Medical Corps
Service number : 49554
Conflict : WW1
Date of death : 18th June 1917 aged 23
Buried : Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave XIV. E. 4.
Relatives : Son of Henry George and Emily, Bennett, 11 Clifton St., Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Memorial : Stourbridge War Memorial
Also appears on : Dudley High Elementary School WW1 Memorial now Claughton Centre.
Credits : Researched by The Black Country Society. Cathedral Roll of honour books researched by Sandra Taylor.

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George Bennett was born in Dudley, moved to Wall Heath with his parents Henry and Emily Bennett and came to live in Stourbridge at 11 Clifton Street.  He was a keen sportsman and athlete.  He enlisted in January 1915 at Colwyn Bay and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps.  He was posted to 72nd Field Ambulance and by June 1917 was in Flanders near Ypres.  On 18th June Corporal George Bennett died of wounds, aged 23, at a Casualty Clearing Station, probably as a result of shelling.