Junior Reserve Attendant George Edward Stockham

Service No: M/9781 (Ch)
Regiment: Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve
Battalion: Plymouth Battalion / St. John Ambulance Brigade.
Battlefield:
Died: 31 May 1915
Age: 40
 
Memorial Location: Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Position:L. 146.
Date Buried:
Home Address:
Notes: Son of William Henry and Alice Matilda Stockham (nee Sainsbury); husband of Mary Stockham (nee Kitt), of 31, Mercia Street, Daubhill, Bolton, Lancashire. Formerly employed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company at Trinity Street Station as foreman cleaner in the carriage and wagon department. A member of the Bolton Corps of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Seriously wounded 17/05/1915 resulting in both feet being amputated. Died at the military hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.
Enlisted 9/8/14 ; Embarked Royal Marine Brigade 17/9/14 ; Plymouth Battalion at Dunkirk & Defence of Antwerp 1914 ; MEF 6/2/15-31/5/15 Discharged Dead.
CWGC has no record of his MiD ; Awarded the DSM: "During the night of 9th-10th May 1915, in operations south of Achi Baba, worked splendidly under fire to recover wounded until himself severely wounded." London Gazette 3/6/15 ; MiD London Gazette 5/8/15 p.7667. ; Born in 1875 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the son of William Henry and Alice Matilda Stockham. Husband of Mary Stockham, of 31 Mercia Street, Bolton, Lancashire, and the father of six children. He earned his First Aid Certificate in Manchester, Lancashire, in 1901, followed by the medallion and ?labels? of the St. John Ambulance Association in connection with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Ambulance Centre. Later he moved to Wigan, Lancs., then to Bolton, Lancs., where he joined the L.&Y. Railway Ambulance Division of the Bolton Ambulance Corps. ; 1914 Star issued to widow 13/5/19.