BORN HULL 1889. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM & MARY E STANIFORTH ABOVE AND GRIMSBY LANE, MARKET PLACE, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN FIRST MONTHS OF THE WAR. HIS YOUNGER BROTHER CHARLES STANIFORTH, KNOWN AS ‘WAGG’, WAS A EYR RESERVIST AND WAS CALLED UP AGAIN AT THE START OF THE WAR. AFTER BEING IN FRANCE FOR NINE MONTHS ‘WAGG’ WAS RETURNED TO ENGLAND WITH SHRAPNEL WOUNDS TO HIS EYE. HE WAS DISCHARGED IN NOVEMBER WHEN HIS TIME EXPIRED, BUT RE-ENLISTED AGAIN. THEIR BROTHER IN LAW, PTE, G BROWN OF 6 EXMOUTH BUILDINGS, QUEEN STREET HAD DONE EIGHT YEARS MILITARY SERVICE, SEVEN IN INDIA AND JUST RETURNED HOME. HE WAS ALSO CALLED UP ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND RETURNED TO ENGLAND WITH SHRAPNEL WOUNDS TO HIS BACK. AFTER RECOVERING THE RETURNED TO FRANCE AGAIN. THEY WERE THREE VERY WELL KNOWN “OLD TOWN” LADS. WILLIAM IS RECORDED ON THE OLD TOWN ROLL OF HONOUR – HDM 1/12/16. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 5TH DECEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
NB: EDWARD & JOHN STANIFORTH- 14 NORTH STREET
