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260006 1st/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
Stanley Garwood was born in 1897 in Sudbury, the youngest of three sons of William and Mary Garwood. His father was a silk weaver and the family lived at 2 Oxford Terrace, Queens Road with his paternal grandparents. In 1911 Stanley was employed as an errand boy for a local stationer.
Stanley enlisted and served with the Suffolk Regiment before transferring to the Gloucestershire Regiment. His battalion formed part of 145th Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division. The battalion saw action during the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres at the Battle of Langemarck (16 – 18 August 1917). They fought in what had become a quagmire due to the unseasonal heavy rain that month and the heavy British bombardment which had destroyed the area drainage and against well constructed German bunkers and machine guns. There were enormous casualties on both sides.
Stanley died of wounds aged 19 on 21 August 1917 and lies buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal. A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his grave in April 2006
The three cemeteries in this area served the field hospitals and casualty clearing stations, they gained their names from the British soldiers sense of humour, who called them ‘Bandaghem’, ‘Dozinghem’ and ‘Mendinghem’ as nearest to their Flemish names.
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