Camp, Stanley Beale

Stanley was the younger son of Edward and Martha (nee Beale) Camp of Lander Cottages, Letchmore Heath, Hertfordshire.

Stanley was a Private with the Bedfordshire Regiment 2^nd Battalion, Regimental Number 14076. He fought in the Western European Theatre of War, France and Flanders.  He was killed in action on 18 May 1915 aged just 18.

Stanley is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Richebourg-l’Avoue, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Panel 10 and 11 and on the Ashwell Village War Memorial. He is also commemorated with his brother Edward Camp on a plaque above the door of 4 Lander Cottages, Letchmore Heath, Aldenham, Hertfordshire.

He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.

He was born in Letchmore Heath (Aldenham), Hertfordshire but the 1911 census shows him and his brother Edward Camp living in Ashwell with their mother’s brother, Isaac Beale.  At the time Stanley was working as a stable lad in a brewery.  Stanley’s mother Martha was born in Ashwell.

Stanley’s brother Edward Camp died of wounds in France 19 October 1918.