Stanley Gilbert Maggs

Memorial: Coalpit Heath - St Saviour's Church

Regiment: Wiltshire Regiment

Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 202728

Parents: Oliver and Jane Elizabeth Maggs (nee Jones)

Home address: Rose Cottage, Kendleshire, Winterbourne

Date of birth: 1895

Place of birth: Frampton Cotterell, Bristol

Date of death: 22/11/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: Cologne Southern Cemetery (Ref: XII. F. 12), Germany

Age: 23

Further information:

Stanley Gilbert Maggs was born in 1895 in Frampton Cotterell to Oliver and Jane Elizabeth of Rose Cottage, Kendleshire, Winterbourne. He had an older brother called Edward. His father had worked as a general labourer on the railway. Both his parents had been born in Westerleigh and were married 1892

Stanley served with the "A" Company, 1st Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment as Private 202728. The family grave at St Saviours Church states that he died as a Prisoner Of War in Germany on the 22nd November 1918. He is buried at the Cologne Southern Cemetery (Ref: XII. F. 12) in Germany

Stanley Gilbert Maggs is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Coalpit Heath

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

Yate and District Heritage Centre and Forces War Records