| 👶 Birth | 10 Oct 1892 | Northern Lea, 28 Northenden Road, Sale, Cheshire 📍 ⓘBurial Records 📎 View |
| 🎓 Education | est 1897 | Mintholme College, 35 Park Crescent, Southport, Lancashire 📍 🏛️ Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee |
| 🎓 Education | est 1903 | Rydal Mount Methodist Boarding School, Colwyn Bay, Clwyd 📍 🏛️ Suffragette movement begins |
| 💼 Occupation | 24 May 1910 (18) | Bank Clerk Lloyds Bank, New Street, Birmingham, West Midlands 📍 🏛️ George V accedes to the throne |
| 💼 Occupation | 09/1914 (22) | 1st Birmingham Battalion Warwickshire Regiment 🏛️ First World War |
| 💼 Occupation | 17 Sep 1915 (23) | Second Lieutenant 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers ⓘProbate Index 📎 View |
| ✝️ Death | 03 Nov 1916 (24) | Cough Drop, Flers, Normandy, France 📍 Shot in head by a sniper ⓘBurial Records 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View War Diary Extract 3-11-16: Fine day - Dull in the early morning. 2/Lient STONES (A boy) sniped through the head. Killed about 1.30am. By his death we lose an excellent officer. 🏛️ Battle of the Somme |
| 🪦 Burial | abt 04 Nov 1916 | Bazentin Le Petit Communal Cemetery Extension, Rue Neuve, Bazentin, Somme, France 📍 Grave Ref: Sp. Mem. C. 16. ⓘBurial Records 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 🔗 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View Edith SADLER (neice of Elizabeth HOLMES) entered into an agreement with Borough of Sale on 3rd January 1939 in respect of grave space N408 at Sale Cemetery. The following are buried in this grave: John Herbert Stones aged 30 years buried on 5th July 1893 Elizabeth Taylor aged 69 years buried on 6th January 1931 Also listed on headstone: War Graves Commission Website: Shepherd Stones | Second Lieutenant | Northumberland Fusiliers | 5th Bn. | Age: 24 | Death: 3/11/1916 | Son of Elizabeth Taylor… Show more Grave Headstone N408 at Sale Cemetery: IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN HERBERT STONES WHO DIED JULY 2ND 1893 AGED 30 YEARS. ALSO LIEUTENANT SHEPHERD STONES 5TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. AGED 24 YEARS. YOUNGEST SON OF ABOVE & ELIZABETH HIS WIFE WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION NOVEMBER 3RD 1916, AND INTERRED AT BAZENTIN FRANCE. "PRO DE, PRO RE, PRO PATRIA, SEN PER FIDELIS" AND OF ERIC STONES, R.E. ELDER SON OF THE ABOVE KILLED IN ACTION AT ARMENTIERES APRIL 9TH 1918, AGED 27 YEARS. ALSO ELIZABETH TAYLOR WI… Show more |
| ⚖️ Probate | 08 May 1917 (25) | London, Middlesex 📍 Effects £346 13d. 4d. 📎 View STONES Shepherd of Ravenswood Solihull Warwickshire second-lieutenant 5th battalion Northumberland Fusiliers died 3 November 1916 in France. Administration London 8 May to Elizabeth Taylor widow. Effect £346 13s. 4d. |
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Extract from North East War Memorials Project:
In Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Cemetery Extension is the Commonwealth War Grave of Acting Captain Shepherd Stones, serving with 'A' Company, 1/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died on the 03/11/1916.
Shepherd Stone was born at Northenden Road, Sale, Altrincham, Cheshire on the 10th October 1892, the second and youngest son of John Herbert Stones, [born 1863, died 2nd July 1893], a paper merchant, with his wife Elizabeth, [nee Holmes, bor… Show more
In Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Cemetery Extension is the Commonwealth War Grave of Acting Captain Shepherd Stones, serving with 'A' Company, 1/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died on the 03/11/1916.
Shepherd Stone was born at Northenden Road, Sale, Altrincham, Cheshire on the 10th October 1892, the second and youngest son of John Herbert Stones, [born 1863, died 2nd July 1893], a paper merchant, with his wife Elizabeth, [nee Holmes, bor… Show more
Extract from Roll of Honour:
STONES, SHEPHERD, 2nd Lieut., 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Northumberland Fusiliers, yr. s. of John Herbert Stones of Sale, by his wife, Elizabeth (Ravenswood, Solihull, co. Warwick), 3rd dau. of the late Isaac Holmes, of Lyndale, Southport; b. Sale, co. Chester, 10 Oct. 1892; educ. Mintholme School, Southport, and Rydale Mount School, Colwyn Bay; subsequently entered the Birmingham Branch of Lloyds Bank; volunteered for foreign service and joined the 1st Birmingham… Show more
STONES, SHEPHERD, 2nd Lieut., 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Northumberland Fusiliers, yr. s. of John Herbert Stones of Sale, by his wife, Elizabeth (Ravenswood, Solihull, co. Warwick), 3rd dau. of the late Isaac Holmes, of Lyndale, Southport; b. Sale, co. Chester, 10 Oct. 1892; educ. Mintholme School, Southport, and Rydale Mount School, Colwyn Bay; subsequently entered the Birmingham Branch of Lloyds Bank; volunteered for foreign service and joined the 1st Birmingham… Show more
Extract from Solihull Life:
24-year-old Second Lieutenant Shepherd Stones, known as “Shep”, was killed in action on 3rd November 1916, serving with the 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. The youngest of two children, he was born in Sale, Cheshire on 10th October 1892. His father, John Herbert Stones, a paper merchant, died on 2nd July 1893, aged 30, leaving his widow, Elizabeth (née Holmes) with two sons under the age of three. Tragically, both boys would be killed in the war.
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24-year-old Second Lieutenant Shepherd Stones, known as “Shep”, was killed in action on 3rd November 1916, serving with the 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. The youngest of two children, he was born in Sale, Cheshire on 10th October 1892. His father, John Herbert Stones, a paper merchant, died on 2nd July 1893, aged 30, leaving his widow, Elizabeth (née Holmes) with two sons under the age of three. Tragically, both boys would be killed in the war.
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