Stanley, Victor

Victor was born between April and June 1889, to William and Sarah Stanley.
In the 1891 census, the family were living at 28 Market Place, Warwick and William is described as a ‘car proprietor’ and employer. Victor had 3 much older siblings: John (19), a gas-fitter’s apprentice, Alice (14) and Arthur (10).
In 1901 only Victor and Alice, now working as a dressmaker, were still living with their parents at 28 Market Place. By 1911 William and Sarah had moved to Brook Street and by 1914 to Friars Street.

In the final months of 1918, Victor married May Louisa Dyer in Warwick. Sadly he died shortly afterwards of influenza in a hospital in France. May remarried, to Arthur Norman Holyoake, at the end of 1921.

Warwick Advertiser – 1919:

Staff Sergeant VICTOR STANLEY died on 29^th January  1919, at the 2^nd Canadian Stationary Hospital, Outreau, France from influenza aged  29 years.  3^rd Son of Mr and Mrs W B Stanley,  of 49 Friars Street, Warwick