- First Name(s):JohnAshley
- Surname:STINTON
- Service Number:831036
- Rank:
Bombardier
- Conflict:WW1
- Service:Army
- Army Sector:Artillery
- Corps:Royal Field Artillery
- Brigade:165th Brigade
- Unit:A Battery
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:9th August 1918
- Age At Death:30
- Cause of Death:Died of wounds
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France, Grave II. B. 13.
- Place of Birth:Born and enlisted Worcester
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of Ashley and Agnes Stinton, 94 Watford Rd., King’s Norton, Birmingham
STINTON John Ashley Is Named On These Memorials
Further Information About STINTON John Ashley
Great Western Railway Roll of Honour:
John Ashley Stinton, Labourer, Loco and carriage Department, Worcester, Age 30, Bombardier A Battery 165th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, died of wounds 9/8/1918.
Source: The Great Western Railway in the First World War by Sandra Gittins, 2010.
Death reported in the Great Western Railway staff magazine, reference 1918/10/1853. Photo in the Great Western Railway staff magazine, reference 1918/12/186.
The same photograph of Gunner Jack Stinton of Worcester can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 18th May 1918 and Saturday 24th August 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.


