Stanley Grey [Gray] – Yorke – Great Eastern Railway – Private – 31/12/1916
Title
Stanley Grey [Gray] – Yorke – Great Eastern Railway – Private – 31/12/1916
Initials / forenames
Stanley Grey [Gray]
Surname
Yorke
Railway company
Great Eastern Railway
Military unit
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 5th Battalion
Military rank
Private
Military number
23840
Railway department
March
Railway job
Porter
Date died
31/12/1916
Magazine reference
Great Eastern Railway Magazine March 1917 Supplement 2, pg 1.
Memorial
Agny Military Cemetery
Notes
Age 20, son of Charles and Laura Yorke of 86 Sturton Street, Cambridge. He joined the Great Eastern Railway in June 1911 as a signal box lad at Cambridge Station, later working as a porter at March Station. Yorke enlisted August 1915 with the Army Cyclist Corps, transferring to the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He died from wounds he received in action.
Information source
St Paul's Cathedral Order of Service 1919, Great Eastern Railway Magazine (image: Great Eastern Railway Society), Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Date entered
12/09/2016
Last updated
12/09/2016
Citation
“Stanley Grey [Gray] – Yorke – Great Eastern Railway – Private – 31/12/1916,” Fallen Railwaymen, accessed May 17, 2024, https://fallenrailwaymen.omeka.net/items/show/42007.