Bryant, Stanley

Stanley was the 5^th son of Benjamin and Esther (nee Huffer) Bryant, born in Ashwell in 1893. He was a pupil at the Merchant Taylors School in Ashwell, Hertfordshire.

Stanley enlisted in August 1914 with the 1^st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, Regimental Number 14609) and was mobilised to the Western Front where he engaged in the battles of Ypres. He then transferred to the 10^th Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (The Sherwood Foresters), Regimental Number 103460. The Royston Crow suggests he might have been a prisoner of war but he is not mentioned in the Prisoner of War lists. It is not known if he survived the War.

He was awarded the 15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

He is commemorated on the St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour.

Before enlisting Stanley was a gardener for a Metropolitan Police Magistrate (probably Edward Snow Fordham).

It is not known if Stanley married or had children, nor when he died.

Stanley’s brothers Arthur, Rupert, Sidney and Percy all survived the war and returned to Ashwell. Rupert received a shrapnel wound to his arm and was awarded a wound stripe. George died in the Battle of the Somme on 13 November 1916.

Royston Crow 31 May 1918 Pte Stanley Bryant, son of Mr & Mrs B Bryant of Baldwin Corner, Ashwell, posted missing, now believed prisoner.