He must have lied about his age when he enlisted. On the war grave stone in France and on a family headstone in Enfield Highway century, his age is given as 18. RIP.
Stanley enlisted as a rifleman in the London Rifle Brigade. He was from Enfield, son of Thomas and Louisa Nickolds - he had 13 brothers and sisters and lived at 11, Totteridge Road. His father was a well-known local figure, an engineer who became a senior manager at the Royal Small Arms Factory and died in 1903. His mother had died only in 1915. One Stanley's older brothers was Charles, my maternal grandfather.
