W.+STONE

Stone, Wilfred, Private, 3089, 12th Battalion, Australian Infantry Born Pilsley, Derbyshire Enlisted Perth, Western Australia, 7th July 1915 Killed in action 10th April 1917 aged 25 Son of Samuel Stone, of Stainsby House, Station Road, Pilsley, Derbyshire Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

He was employed as a miner. 5 feet 4 inches tall, he had a dark complexion, grey eyes and dark brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England. He joined his unit at Tel el Kebir in Egypt on the 19th January 1916, and arrived at Marseilles, France, on the 5th April. On the 9th November he was admitted to hospital and treated for exhaustion and trench feet until the 28th. He was then readmitted to hospital on the 18th December due to contracting venereal disease, and finally rejoined his unit on the 16th January 1917. On the 29th March he went absent from parade without permission for which he received 10 days Field Punishment No. 2.

1911 Census A coal miner hewer Son of Samuel, a coal mine deputy, and Mary Ann Stone, of Stainsby House, Station Road, Pilsley