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Eric STONES

1891 – 1918 · Northern Lea, 28 Northenden Road, Sale, Cheshire
🌺 War Dead
👶Birth
24/02/1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
Northern Lea, 28 Northenden Road, Sale, Cheshire 📍 1911 Census
1891 Census
Birth Certificate
📎 Birth
🏠Lived
1891
Northern Lea, 28 Northenden Road, Sale, Cheshire 📍 1891 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (10)
1901
🏛️ Second Boer War
Ravenswood, 25 Homer Road, Solihull, West Midlands 📍 1901 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (20)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
Ravenswood, 25 Homer Road, Solihull, West Midlands 📍 1911 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (20)
1911
Warehouseman in Stamped Brick Foundry 1911 Census
💼Occupation (23)
1914
🏛️ First World War
Private 10/64006 with Training Reserve Battalion
💼Occupation (24)
1915
Private G/51430 with Royal Fusiliers 8th Bt
💼Occupation (25)
1916
🏛️ Battle of the Somme
Pioneer 197474 with 3rd Special Company of Royal Engineers 📎 Image 📎 Image
📝Will (25)
26/08/1916
Left everything to his mother including shares held in Herbert Kershaw & Co Ltd Will 📎 Will
✝️Death (27)
09/04/1918
🏛️ Women over 30 gain the vote
Armentieres, Hauts-de-France, France 📍
Killed in Action Burial Records
Grave Headstone
📎 Image
🪦Burial
abt 10/04/1918
Pozieres British Cemetery, Route d'Albert, Pozieres, Somme, France 📍
Panel 10 to 13 Burial Records 📎 Grave 📎 Image 📎 Burial 📎 Burial 📎 Memorial 📎 Grave 🔗 Grave 📎 Memorial 📎 Memorial 📎 Memorial

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

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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

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⚖️Probate
04/03/1919
🏛️ Treaty of Versailles
London, Middlesex 📍
Effects £687 11s. 1d. Probate Index
Grant of Probate
📎 Probate Grant 📎 Probate

STONES Eric of Ravenswood Solihull Warwickshire pioneer R.E. died 9 April 1918 in France Probate London 4 March to Elizabeth Taylor widow. Effects £687 11s. 1d.

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Documents
Associations
Witness of his Birth: Elizabeth HOLMES
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