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Surname: STAINTON
Forename(s): John Giles
Place of Birth: Sedbergh, Yorkshire
Service No: 20060
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Dorsetshire Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 6th (Service) Battalion
Division: 17th (Northern) Division
Age: 37
Date of Death: 1917-10-16
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 92.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SEDBERGH, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
John Giles Stainton was the son of Tom and Hannah Stainton, née Westgarth. Tom was born at Blackburn, Lancashire and Hannah at Hunsonby, Cumberland.
1891 Sedbergh (Fostrow & Soolbank), Yorkshire Census: Derry Cottages - John Giles Stainton, aged 9 years, born Sedbergh, son of Tom and Hannah Stainton.
1901 Burnley Lancashire Census: 4, Aqueduct Street - John G. Stainton, aged 19 years, born Sedbergh, Yorkshire. [John was boarding with Adam Bassnett.]
John was married to Sarah Ann Wilson Hayhurst (born Burnley, Lancashire, 20 February 1883) in 1902.
1911 Liverpool, Lancashire Census: 19 Rickman Street, Kirkdale - John Giles Stainton, aged 29 years, born Sedbergh, Yorkshire. [John's wife, Sarah, was living at 5, Hull Street, Burnley, with their daughter, Hannah. John was boarding with John Thomson Macdonald.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte John G. Stainton, CMT/1672, 7 D.S.C., A.S.C.; 20060, 6th Dorset R. Theatre of War first served in: [1 - France]. Date of entry therein: 5.10.14. Killed.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte John Giles Stainton, C(MT)1672 R.A.S.C. (MT); 20060, 6 Dorset. K. in A. 16.10.17.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte John Giles Stainton, 20060, 6/Dorset Regt, Date and Place of Death: 16.10.17 in action. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Sarah A.W. £22 3s. 11d. Widow - Sarah A.W. £15 7s. 10d. For the benefit of soldiers children.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for John.
A short biography of John is included in: ‘Sedbergh and District 1914-1918 – But who shall return the children?’ Compiled by Sedbergh and District History Society. Edited by Diane Elphick (2016).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private John Giles STAINTON
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Dorsetshire Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 17th (Northern) Division
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The Sedbergh men who gave their lives
Centre panel - Top row (l-r): Corporal John Charles Leighton, Private Edwin Storey, Private Miles Capstick, Pioneer Fred Teesdale Bushby. Second row (l-r): Sergeant Harry Lyddington Mason, Gunner George Armstrong Thompson, Private Harold Hardy Pearson, Private Noel Bennett. Third row (l-r): Private Albert Brookes, Private John Giles Stainton, Private Henry James Clemmet, L/Corporal Thomas William Clemmet. Fourth row (l-r): Private Thomas Leighton Hall, Private Joseph Charles Bateman
Three-panel oil-painting, courtesy of the artist, David Hartnup
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09 November 1917
SEDBERGH – WAR CASUALTIES
Mr. T. Stainton, Kendal Square, has been informed that his eldest son, Pte. J. G. Stainton, was killed on the 16th October. Private Stainton was in the Motor Transport and was called up immediately on the outbreak of war. Two months ago he was transferred to the infantry. He was sent out to the Front in 1914. Private Stainton (37) was the oldest of four brothers, all in the Army. Pte. Thomas Stainton has been a prisoner of war in Germany since May 1915.
Pte. Stanley Banks, of the R.F.A., has been officially notified as being wounded and admitted to hospital.
Mr. R. Inman, of Garsdale, has been officially informed that his son, Gunner E. C. Inman, of the R.G.A., has been wounded in the leg and shoulder by shrapnel, and was admitted to hospital at Rouen. He has since been removed to England and is recovering. The Rev. E. C. Inman, before joining the Army, was curate at Eccleshill, and will be well remembered in Sedbergh as the winner of the Bernard Wilson run two years in succession.
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