STANLEY HERBERT PRYKE

IPSWICH WAR MEMORIAL | Posted on 10th May 2016 |

From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730

As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570

Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.

Born: 10th November 1897, Ipswich.

Baptised on the 13^th February 1898, at St. Mary Stoke Church, Ipswich – family home at 37, Martin Road, Ipswich.

Died: 2nd July 1918; age 20; died of Pneumonia at the Military Hospital, Bedford, Bedfordshire.

Residence: 37, Martin Road, Ipswich.

Occupation: with Ransome & Rapier Ltd., Bourne Park, Ipswich.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 320209

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 15th Battalion.

Formerly 2127, Suffolk Yeomanry.

Medals Awarded: Victory and British War.

Funeral service held on Monday, 8^th July at St. Mary Stoke Church, Ipswich, before burial at Ipswich Old Cemetery.

Grave Reference:

L.15.25.

Ipswich Old Cemetery,

Ipswich.

Relatives Notified & Address: Only son of Herbert Edwin Pryke, of 37, Martin Road, Ipswich & the late Eda Pryke.

CENSUS

1901 37, Martin Road, Ipswich.

Stanley was 3 years old and living with his parents.

Herbert Edwin Pryke, 28, a Pattern Maker, born Ipswich.

Eda Mary Louisa Pryke (nee Thorpe), 32, born Burgh, Suffolk.

1911 37, Martin Road, Ipswich.

Stanley was 13 years old and living with his parents.

Herbert, 38, an Engineer’s Pattern Maker.

Eda, 42.

Stanley’s mother, Eda Pryke, died in early 1918, Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Herbert E. Pryke – father.

Stanley is also remembered on the Ransome & Rapier Ltd. war memorial, Bourne Park, Ipswich, also at St Mary at Stoke Church, Ipswich and at Northgate High School. Formerly Ipswich Grammar School for Boys.

Following a successful campaign in Palestine under General Allenby, the Battalion returned to the Western Front as part of the GHQ reserve in June to July 1918, eventually being sent to the front line in front of St Venant, in the Haverskerque-Amusoires sector. ”