We are grateful to Joanne Stowe who wrote to us in 2014 about her great great uncle, Harry Hancock, this man. She confirmed that he is the Private H. Hancock on the Teddington memorial and the Henry Hancock on the Stanley School memorial. As a child he lived in Stanley Road. He died at the Battle of the Somme and is buried at Grave Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Private Henry Hancock
Commemorated ati
Stanley School WW1 memorial
The face on the right (south-facing) has been badly weather-beaten and then i...
Teddington War Memorial
The group of names on the back of the monument headed "Additional Names, 1915...
Other Subjects
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
James Hanley
Novelist and playwright. Â The ODNB says he was born Dublin 1901. Â Wikipedia says that's wrong; it was Liverpool in 1897. Â Left school aged 12 and educated himself thereafter. Â In WW1 he served in t...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Stanley Horace Grocock
2779 Private 23rd BN. London Regiment. Age 19. Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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