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the end of 1917 George was transferred to the Royal
Engineers with a new number – 367719, and was shipped back
to Egypt. He was posted to the 2nd Light Railway Construction
Company RE as a Sapper, with the trade of a platelayer, by
chance the same career as that of his father in Kings Cliffe.
This fast-moving campaign needed equally fast-moving
supplies and George and his fellow engineers were busy laying
and repairing railway track to support the fighting men. In March
1918 he passed his qualifications to become a skilled platelayer
and two months later he was restored to the rank of Lance
Corporal, which he retained for the rest of the war.
Unfortunately, George succumbed to one of the major, non-
military disabilities of the region, malaria. At the end of July 1918
he went into a series of hospitals, where he remained until the
end of hostilities. He was invalided back to the UK in Feb 1919.
He left the army in April of that year and returned to Kings Cliffe,
where he received his Victory Medal in 1922.
We know little of George’s life after his return. There is a
possibility that he was the George Stanger who married Bertha
Pulford in Stamford in 1931, but, other than the name, there is
no support for this.
He died on 30th November 1948 aged 60. His elder brother,
Arthur, administered his will where he left £377-4-4d (£377.22),
not an inconsiderable amount for a farm labourer, who after
WW1 only earned about £5 a week.
STANGER Harry
Private 13443 Royal Army Veterinary Corp
Born in 1883 in Kings Cliffe to William and Marianne Stanger,
Harry was the second oldest of the Stanger boys. He was the last
to enlist and when he went his parents must have realised that the
chance of all four boys returning alive was not good.
In 1901, as a 17-year-old he was no longer living with his parents
in Kings Cliffe, but cannot be located anywhere else in the UK. In
1911 he was still single and lodging at 32 Charles Street, Woolwich
with the Bond family and working as a journeyman butcher.
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Engineers with a new number – 367719, and was shipped back
to Egypt. He was posted to the 2nd Light Railway Construction
Company RE as a Sapper, with the trade of a platelayer, by
chance the same career as that of his father in Kings Cliffe.
This fast-moving campaign needed equally fast-moving
supplies and George and his fellow engineers were busy laying
and repairing railway track to support the fighting men. In March
1918 he passed his qualifications to become a skilled platelayer
and two months later he was restored to the rank of Lance
Corporal, which he retained for the rest of the war.
Unfortunately, George succumbed to one of the major, non-
military disabilities of the region, malaria. At the end of July 1918
he went into a series of hospitals, where he remained until the
end of hostilities. He was invalided back to the UK in Feb 1919.
He left the army in April of that year and returned to Kings Cliffe,
where he received his Victory Medal in 1922.
We know little of George’s life after his return. There is a
possibility that he was the George Stanger who married Bertha
Pulford in Stamford in 1931, but, other than the name, there is
no support for this.
He died on 30th November 1948 aged 60. His elder brother,
Arthur, administered his will where he left £377-4-4d (£377.22),
not an inconsiderable amount for a farm labourer, who after
WW1 only earned about £5 a week.
STANGER Harry
Private 13443 Royal Army Veterinary Corp
Born in 1883 in Kings Cliffe to William and Marianne Stanger,
Harry was the second oldest of the Stanger boys. He was the last
to enlist and when he went his parents must have realised that the
chance of all four boys returning alive was not good.
In 1901, as a 17-year-old he was no longer living with his parents
in Kings Cliffe, but cannot be located anywhere else in the UK. In
1911 he was still single and lodging at 32 Charles Street, Woolwich
with the Bond family and working as a journeyman butcher.
232
