In Memory of

Lance Corporal Stanley Jarrett

9543
10th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
Died of Wounds 9th July 1916 Age 22

Stanley lived with his parents at 6, Portland Street, Earlestown. Before joining the army he had worked at Messrs. T. and T. Vicars.

Stanly was killed during the Battles of the Somme. Although the obituary in WG of 29th July 1916 suggests he may have only been missing, he has a known grave at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'Abbe. Mericourt-l'Abbe is a village approximately 19 kilometres north-east of Amiens and 10 kilometres south-west of Albert. The cemetery was used by three Casualty Clearing Stations in 1916. According to CWGC, "There are now 2,890 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Only 12 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 21 casualties whose graves in the cemetery could not be exactly located. The cemetery also contains 83 German graves. The burials in this cemetery were carried out under extreme pressure and many of the graves are either too close together to be marked individually, or they contain multiple burials. Some headstones carry as many as three sets of casualty details, and in these cases, regimental badges have had to be omitted. Instead, these badges, 117 in all, have been carved on a cloister wall on the north side of the cemetery."

Stanley's gravestone originally had the wrong initial but this has now been corrected by CWGC.