STANLEY PHILLIP BARRETT
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.
Photograph courtesy of Peter.
Born: 4th April 1915, Ipswich.
Died: 24th March 1945; age: 29, KiA – died in a glider – Operation Varsity.
Residence: 135, Ranelagh Road, Ipswich.
Employed: as a Pressman – Seed Crusher.
Rank: Corporal; Service Number: 5831708
Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached H.Q. 6th Airbourne Division.
The body was originally buried in a field at Haminkeln, Germany. On the 12th November 1946, the body was exhumed, identified, and re-buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Grave Reference:
42.D.6.
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,
Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Germany.
Father: Phillip Richard Barrett, born 1878, Norwich, Norfolk – died 1927, Ipswich.
Mother: Alice Mary Barrett (nee Holden), born 1884, Crowfield, Suffolk.
CENSUS
1921 35, Foxhall Road, Ipswich.
Stanley (recorded as Stanley Philip Mons Barrett) was 6 years & 2 months old and lived with his parents, siblings and stepsister.
Philip Barrett, 43 years & 6 months old, a Disabled Pensioner – formerly of Ransome, Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich.
Alice Barrett, 37 years & 9 months old, Home Duties.
Hilda Winifred May Holden, 17 years & 9 months old, a Confectioner’s Shop Assistant – Joseph Hunt, of Tavern Street, Ipswich, born Barham, Suffolk.
Gertrude Phyllis Ivy Barrett, 13 years & 3 months old, at School, born Ipswich.
Leonard William Richard Barrett, 10 years & 7 months old, at School, born Ipswich.
Frederick Arthur Barrett, 8 years old, at School, born Ipswich.
1 boarder – Sidney Ernest Hastings, 34 years & 6 months old, General Labourer for Ipswich Corporation, at Nacton Road, Racecourse, Ipswich.
In 1929, Alice Mary Barrett married Sidney Ernest Hastings. They made their Hastings/Barrett family home at 147, Ranelagh Road, Ipswich.
In 1938, at St. Mary at Stoke Church, Ipswich, Stanley married May Chapman, born January 1913, West Ham, Essex, daughter of Louis William Chapman, a blacksmith for the G.E.Railway – signal and telegraph maintenance department and Sarah Ann Chapman (nee Warren), of 2, Bradley Street, Ipswich.
May and Stanley had two children:
Eldon Stanley Barrett, born January 1941, Ipswich.
Bernice Mary Barrett, born 1942, Ipswich.
ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939.
Stanley and May were living at 135, Ranelagh Road, Ipswich. He was employed as a Pressman – Seed Crusher.
May Chapman & Stanley Barrett
Newspaper picture taken from the Evening Star – 23rd May 1945.
Stanley is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Mary at Stoke Church, Ipswich.
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