Soldier Record

Stanley Larcome Private 59929

my granmothers' memories

Joined the 10th Battalion of the West Yorkshire regiment.

His eldest sister (my grandmother) used to tell stories about him in the war years. One where he was marching through the Black forest with his platoon and a sniper hidden in the treetops, shot and killed the man marching beside him.

He also fought in the trenches near the Black forest.

One story when durring the war his mother recieved a telegram reporting him missing believed killed, and how at the end of the war she refused to celibrate as she was still mourning her eldest sons death.

How she (my grandmother) was coming home from work one day and in every shop window she saw his face, then when she finally got home he had returned from the dead (She never mentioned the confusion surrounding why he had been reported missing pressumed killed).

She also told how his mother washed his army uniform (because he needed it to claim a demob suit). She washed it in a tub wrang it through a mangle, put it on a clothes horse to dry in front of the fire. While drying out it stared jumping about, due to still be crawling with lice from the trenches.

He was placed on the reserve list 10th February 1919. Then demobbed 31stJuly 1920.

He recevied the British war medal and the Victory medal.

After the war he worked on the railway.