Post by BereniceUK on Apr 11, 2017 11:06:45 GMT
Is this man named on the memorial?
Lieutenant Charles Noble Stacey, 7th Middlesex Regiment. Died 10th May 1915, aged 20. Son of Edward and Jane Stacey, of Audley House, New Barnet.
Lieut. Charles Noble Stacey, of the 7th Middlesex Regiment, at the age of 20, belonged to one of the best known and most highly esteemed families in North Westmorland. His mother, Mrs. Edward Stracey, was the elder daughter of the late Mr. Christopher Mounsey Wilson, a Manchester manufacturer, and a property owner in Westmorland. The Wilsons were among the leading people in Bampton, and had the best interests of the parish at heart. Unfortunately, towards the end of last century, their country residence, Walmgate Head, was burnt down during an exceptionally hard winter; and it seemed like the irony of fate that, although the house stood near Haweswater, the water was unavailable, as the lake was frozen over, and the only inmate of Walmgate at the time was the caretaker, Mrs. Martindale, who was practically burnt to a cinder. A late uncle of Lieut. Stacey was Mr. C. M. Wilson, a barrister on the Northern Circuit.
(Westmorland Gazette, 22 May 1915)
Lieutenant Charles Noble Stacey, 7th Middlesex Regiment. Died 10th May 1915, aged 20. Son of Edward and Jane Stacey, of Audley House, New Barnet.
Lieut. Charles Noble Stacey, of the 7th Middlesex Regiment, at the age of 20, belonged to one of the best known and most highly esteemed families in North Westmorland. His mother, Mrs. Edward Stracey, was the elder daughter of the late Mr. Christopher Mounsey Wilson, a Manchester manufacturer, and a property owner in Westmorland. The Wilsons were among the leading people in Bampton, and had the best interests of the parish at heart. Unfortunately, towards the end of last century, their country residence, Walmgate Head, was burnt down during an exceptionally hard winter; and it seemed like the irony of fate that, although the house stood near Haweswater, the water was unavailable, as the lake was frozen over, and the only inmate of Walmgate at the time was the caretaker, Mrs. Martindale, who was practically burnt to a cinder. A late uncle of Lieut. Stacey was Mr. C. M. Wilson, a barrister on the Northern Circuit.
(Westmorland Gazette, 22 May 1915)