View source for Stonehouse William Carr L/Cpl 4455773

{{Personnel
|id=1176
|Surname and forenames=Stonehouse William Carr
|Army number=4455773
|Rank=Lance Corporal.
|Date of birth=Born 1909/10.
|Age=30 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no known enlistment date, but almost certainly early May 1939.  Posted ? 9th Bn DLI.  Posted ? 12th Bn DLI - probably 1/9/1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  DIED of WOUNDS sustained at Ficheux 20/5/40, Authority:- Casualty L. Category B.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Company/Battery=D Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
|Promotions=None known beyond Lance Corporal.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Wounded=20/5/1940 at Ficheux.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED of WOUNDS 20-May-40 at Ficheux.  Buried Memorial Plot 8, Row E, Grave 12, [[BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY]], Ficheux.  His headstone inscription reads : LOVING MEMORIES OF A DEAR HUSBAND AND DARLING DADDY. WIFE BETTY, ERIC & FAMILY.
|Home address=Son of Thomas and Helena Stonehouse, Husband of Bessie Stonehouse, Swalwell.  
|Image Name=Stonehouse_W_C_4455773.JPG
|Image Title=L/Cpl W C Stonehouse's CWGC headstone.
|Source table=1TS
}}