Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Horace Stanley was born on 29 August 1921 in the village of Woodville, South Derbyshire, near the famous brewing town of Burton- on - Trent. He had one sister called Hilda who was born in June 1920 and who still lives near Woodville in the village of Hartshorne.
As a young man Horace worked at the Albion Clay Company in Woodville but left there to join the Royal Navy in 1941 for a new career.
Writing home in January 1942, he wrote:
" I shall be across for a drink of good old Burton ale as soon as I get home. We can get beer out here at 7d a bottle and some of them seem to think it's good stuff. But wherever you go you can't get any to touch Burton, it's the best in the world."
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Information provided by Horace's niece, and taken from website
http://www.forcez-survivors.org.uk/biographies/dorsetshirecrew/stanley.html
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Ordinary Seaman Horace Stanley was aboard HMS Devonshire when it was hit and sunk by Japanese dive bombers, off the coast of Ceylon, 5/4/1942
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Information submitted by A. Smith 2017