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| Robert William STANGER (1876 - 1916) |
| soldier, Durham Light Infantry |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
| Robert William STANGER (1876 - 1916) | George STANGER (1810 - 1893) | Thomas STANGER (1769 - 1845) | James Thomas STANGA (1720 - 1804) | |
| Mary SPENCER (1731 - 1806) | ||||
| Tamar BARKER (1771 - 1834) | William BARKER (1743 - 1819) | |||
| Mary WAKE (1747 - 1825) | ||||
| Jane SELEBY (1842 - 1879) | ||||
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| b. abt Jun 1876 at Faceby, Yorkshire, England |
| d. 17 Sep 1916 at Flers-Courcelette, France aged 40 |
| Parents: |
| George STANGER (1810 - 1893) |
| Jane SELEBY (1842 - 1879) |
| Events in Robert William STANGER (1876 - 1916)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| abt Jun 1876 | Robert William STANGER was born | Faceby, Yorkshire, England | Note 1 | ||
| abt 1879 | 3 | Death of mother Jane SELEBY (aged 37) | |||
| 29 Aug 1893 | 17 | Death of father George STANGER (aged 83) | Faceby, Yorkshire, England | ||
| 1911 | 35 | Census | Newsham Aislaby, Durham, England | farm labourer aged 31 | |
| 17 Sep 1916 | 40 | Robert William STANGER died | Flers-Courcelette, France | ||
| Burial | Etaples, France | ||||
| Note 1: FreeBMD Jun 1876 Stokesley 9d 662 |
| Personal Notes: |
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Private: 4419
1st/5th Durham light infantry Cemetery: etaples pas de calais, france. Grave # x.e.3 Private Robert William Stanger S/N 4419 served with the 1st / 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, Northumbrian 50th Division. He was killed in action probably at Flers-Courcelette, France on Sunday 17 September 1916, age 38 years 3 http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=506088 During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained. The cemetery contains 10,773 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. 35 of these burials are unidentified. Hospitals were again stationed at Etaples during the Second World War and the cemetery was used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War burials, 38 are unidentified. Etaples Military Cemetery also contains 658 German burials and a few war graves of other nationalities. The cemetery, the largest Commission cemetery in France, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Battle of Flers-Courcelette - 15th to 22nd Sep 1916 http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_flers_courcelette.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme_(1916) Birth: unknown Death: Sep. 17, 1916 Inscription: 1st/5th Bn. Durham Light Infantry. Note: Died of wounds 17th September 1916. Age 38. Son of George and Jane Stanger of Faceby-in-Cleveland Yorks. X. E. 3. Burial: Etaples Military Cemetery Etaples Departement du Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Plot: See Notes Created by: International Wargraves ... Record added: May 01, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 10897874 |