STUBBS

		Source
		CWGC	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents
Where born	Uttoxeter		Yes		3
When born	About 1890				5
Address	Wife: 35, Hockley Road, Uttoxeter	Yes
	The Hockley, Uttoxeter			2a
	Uttoxeter		Yes		3
Spouse	Alice Stubbs	Yes
Children	One
Employment Before Joining up
Where enlisted	Luton, Bedfordshire		Yes		3
Military service before the war	Member of the local Territorials			2a
Regiment	North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)	Yes			1, 3
Unit	1^st/6^th Bn.	Yes	Yes
	1/6^th (T.F.) Bn				3
	‘B’ Company				1
Rank	Private	Yes	Yes	2a	1, 3
Service Number	2515	Yes	Yes		1, 3
Date of Death	13 October 1915	Yes	Yes		1, 3
Age at time of death	25	Yes
Where Killed or died	Loos - Hohenzollern Redoubt			2d	3
Where Killed or died	France/Flanders		Yes	2c
How he died	Killed in Action		Yes		1
Location of Grave or Memorial	Loos Memorial for the Missing Panel 103 to 105	Yes
Awards

Before the war he was a well-known local pigeon fancier and was a member of the Uttoxeter Flying Club.

In past years he was an enthusiastic pedestrian, and won the Keeling Cup two years in succession, whilst he was also the possessor of a number of prizes for running.

Sidney was a local Territorial^[1a] and died in the charge on the Hohenzollern Redoubt; he was initially reported as “missing^[1b], and was later assumed to have been killed.

In November 1917, two years after he died, the Uttoxeter Advertiser published an article about his brother Charles^[1c] when he was awarded the Military Medal:

“We have again the pleasure of adding another son of Uttoxeter to the growing list of those who have brought honour to the town and credit to themselves by distinguished conduct in the great war. The newcomer to the select company who have gained the Military Medal is Pte. Charles Stubbs, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, whose wife and family reside at Sunnyside. He has been in the Army since September, 1916, and for 10 months has been in France taking more than his share in the hurly-burly of the fight. On no fewer than nineteen occasions he has been “over the top”, and it will stir the imagination of Uttoxeter folk to be informed that the particular actions for which he obtained the coveted distinction were performed on Wakes Monday and Tuesday, when his friends in Uttoxeter were spending their time in peaceful holiday and mild jollification. Pte Stubbs won the medal for particularly gallant work in raids on the German trenches – always requiring coolness and courage.

Previous to joining the forces he was employed in the joiners’ shop at the Leighton Ironworks, and he is a married man with a family of eight young children, including twins (the youngest), which won a prize at Uttoxeter Baby show a few months since.

There will be a consensus of opinion that Pte. Stubbs – who is at present at home on a few days’ well-earned leave – is a patriot in the true sense of the word, and he will deserve all the congratulations which come his way.

Both Mrs. Stubbs and Pte. Stubbs have lost brothers in the war, Pte. Nield (the former’s brother) dying in Mesopotamia and Pte. Sidney Stubbs being killed in France.

Pte. Stubbs is the eighth Uttoxeter soldier to gain the Military Medal; and Sergt.-Major H. Males has the honour of holding the D.C.M.