Forename: Stanley George
Surname: Wilson
Rank: Private
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Institution: St Paul’s Practising School
Stanley George Wilson was the son of Walter Edward and Eliza Wilson and born in 1892. He worked at Norman Brothers’ Printers in Bennington Street before enlisting as a Private in the 1st/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment.
He was initially invalided in March 1916 and returned to England with an injury to his knee cap and septic poisoning caused by rusty barbed wire. He recovered at Epsom Military Hospital and returned to France where he died at the struggle for the Skyline Trench in the Somme region on 21 July 1916. Stanley was 24 years old. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Stanley died on the same day as his fellow Practising School pupils Daniel William Sullivan and Arthur William Sims.