Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
The War Diary for today records. Advance continued Zero 05.30hrs Battalion on right of Brigade, 2nd Sherwood Foresters centre, Suffolk Regiment on left. A Company right front, B Company left front, C Company right support, D Company left support. Advance held up by enemy hostile Machine Gun fire all along front, after advancing about 400 yards Battalion had to dig in. Trench almost immediately gained left and right (1st/5th -?- Staffordshire Regiment 46th Division). Enemy Machine Guns very active throughout the day Captain D. V. Webb M.C. and 2nd Lieutenant T. Pollard wounded. Battalion front line ran from D.12.d. 60.80 to E.13.b. 00.20 along road. Trench strength 12 officers and 356 approximately. The 118th A.I.R. were -?- at -?- the Brigade left. 1 section Royal Field Artillery and 2 sections Machine Gun Corps. and 1 battery of Stokes were attached to the Battalion. Night of 11th/12th instant 71st Infantry Brigade was relieved by 18th Infantry Brigade, 11th Essex Regiment relieving the Battalion, good relief considering awkward positions of posts, except for C Company whose guides failed to turn up at the right rendezvous. Relief completed 03.10hrs 12th October. On relief the Battalion withdrew to huts north of Bohain, good huts, old -?- and plenty of accommodation. All ranks naturally very tired. Casualties 2 officers and 30 other ranks approximately. 1 prisoner was captured belonging to the 8th Infantry Regiment. Trench strength 12 officers and 356 other ranks approximately. Casualties, other ranks A Company 1 killed, 9 wounded. B Company 9 wounded. C Company 1 killed, 8 wounded. D Company 2 wounded. Officers, wounded Captain D. V. Webb M.C. and 2nd Lieutenant T. Pollard.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Friends of Thringstone has been going through Thringstone school log books in which Willie Stanley (and his sister Harriet) are mentioned. They lived for quite a while on Talbot Lane, Thringstone, and these children, aged 10 and 8 respectively, are recorded in the log book for April 1896 as coming to school ‘having not been in 1st standard’. This indicates a lack of previous education on a continuous basis. Harriet and Willie were the children of Edward and Mary Ann Stanley of Talbot Lane or Sandholes as it was also called, who appear to have had 13 children. In 1911, Willie and his family are shown as living at Stone Row, Coalville. Willie left a widow, Ethel, who he had married in 1910, and 2 sons, William aged 7 and James Edward aged 4.
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Submitted by N. Pearson in 2020