Stanley Drake
View Stanley on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
140908
Rank:
Private
Service:
Machine Gun Corps
Origin:
Date of birth:
1892
Date of death:
15 May 1918
Age at Death:
25
Known information
Private Stanley Drake was born at Barton Turf, near Norwich but was working for the grocers F W Hart in Oakham when the war began. He joined the Leicestershire Regiment in February 1915 before transferring to the Machine Gun Corps, and went out to France in November the same year. He was wounded and taken prisoner on 28 March 1916. He died in a prison camp in Germany in May 1918 and is buried in Niederzwehren Cemetery, grave X.B.10. He is remembered on Oakham's war memorial.
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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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