Gordon Leonard Stapley

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Pvt Gordon Leonard Stapley - Royal Berkshire Regiment - Service No :- 41492 - died 31/10/1917 - buried Reading Cemetery.
Currently remembered on a special memorial but the grave now identified.  CWGC are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

41492 Pte.Gordon Leonard Stapley, 6th.Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Died of Pneumonia while recovering from Wounds received in action, at the 1st.Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool on the 31st.October 1917.


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This entry gave the following details :- In the 1901 Census, Gordon, aged 9, was residing at 3 & 5 Market Place, Reading with his father William, aged 46 who worked as a Director/Manager Employer at a Drapers shop, his mother Helena (44) and his sister Maud, aged 20.
Also living at this address were 10 boaderers and 4 servants.

When the 1911 Census was taken in 1911, Gordon (19) and working as a 'Sculptor/Undertaker' was residing at 4 Queen Victoria St, Reading with his father William (55), now a widower who also worked as a self-employed 'Sculptor/Undertaker' at their home address.
Alice Hopkins (25) was at this address employed as a 'Housekeeper'.
Gordon's mother, Helena had died in the 2nd.Qtr.of 1907.

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Father passed in 1919

William J T Stapley - 1855 - 1919  (aged 64 years)
Registration Quarter   Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district   Reading   Berkshire
Volume   2c Page   394

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Sister - Maude Lilian Stapley - married 1902 Reading Berkshire to Charles Frank Saunders.
Vol 2 c 712

1911 census Cobbett Rd, Kearsney, Southampton.

Charles Frank Saunders 36 Head
Maude Lilian Saunders   30   Wife
Francis Arthur Saunders 8 Son
Violet Lilian Saunders 6 Daughter
Elizabeth Amelia Philpott 36 Servant

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Maude passed 1926

Maude L Saunders - 1880 - 1926  (aged 46 years)
Registration Quarter   Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district   Southampton   Hampshire
Volume   2c Page   36

Charles passed 1946

Charles F Saunders - 1873 - 1946  (aged 73 years)
Registration Quarter   Apr-May-Jun
Registration district   Portsmouth Hampshire
Volume   2b Page   635

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Francis - son of Maude and Charles married 1931

Francis A Saunders - married 1931
Registration Quarter   Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district   Fareham   Hampshire
Spouse   Ethel M Mead
Volume Number   2b Page number   1465

Francis Arthur Saunders passed 1970

Francis Arthur Saunders - 31 March 1903 - 1970  (aged 67 years)
Registration Quarter   Apr-May-Jun
Registration district   Bromley Greater London
Volume   5a Page   1044

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