1. 1901 Census (31st March).
(Source: www.findmypast.co.uk)
At the time of the 1901 Census William Stockdale’s family was living in Peter Hill, Hutton Westside, Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire. A house named Peter Hill is located 1.5 miles south-west of Hutton Rudby by the lane to East Rounton.
Details:
John Stockdale, head of the house, married, occupation Hind[2], age 38, born in Marton, Yorkshire.
Ann Stockdale, wife, married, age 38, born in Ellerby, Yorkshire.
William Stockdale, son, age 6, born in Skutterskelfe, Yorkshire.
Edwin Stockdale, son, age 3.
Thomas Stockdale, son, age 1.
2. Hind: A farm servant, often living in his employer's house.
(Source: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~matthew/Papers/Woollard_1881Classifications_no%20illustration.pdf “The classification of occupations in the 1881 Census of England and Wales”)
3. 1911 Census (2nd April).
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Living with John Stockdale was Johnson Harwood, father-in-law age 83.
4. 1911 Census (2nd April).
(Source: http://www.ww1-yorkshires.org.uk/html-files/ingleby-arncliffe.htm)
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William H Stockdale was working as a farm labourer, aged 16, with his grandfather at a farm in Seamer, Scarborough.
5. http://www.ww1-yorkshires.org.uk/html-files/ingleby-arncliffe.htm
6. Confirmed photographs of Private William H Stockdale.
(Source: http://www.ww1-yorkshires.org.uk/html-files/ingleby-arncliffe.htm)
Photographs courtesy of Mrs Venetia Wade.
6a. Photograph 1 At a training camp.
6b. Photograph 2 At a training camp.
6c. Photograph 3 Prisoner of War.
7. www.4thyorkshires.com
7a. Page 39- The build up to the battle south-east of Arras on 23rd April 1917
7b. Page 40- 150th Brigade Diary report for the battle south-east of Arras on 23rd April 1917 (part of the Second Battle of the Scarpe)
7c. Page 40- 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment War Diary of the battle south-east of Arras on 23rd April 1917 (part of the Second Battle of the Scarpe)
8. Battlefield south-east of Arras, 23rd April 1917
Detail from 1:20k trench map 51B.SW, annotated with information from the War Diaries of 150th Brigade and 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment.
9. Private William Stockdale Prisoner of War records.
(Source: International Committee of the Red Cross historical archives
Prisoners of the First World War
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/2266570/3/2/ )
9a. Prisoner of War Index Card
9b. First Prisoner of War camp – Limburg an der Lahn, near Coblenz, 19th July 1917
9c. Second Prisoner of War camp – Friedrichsfeld, near Coblenz, 12th April 1918_1
9d. Repatriation via Dover, 2nd December 1918
10. Private William Stockdale - medals
(Source: www.forces-war-records.co.uk)
11. www.findmypast.co.uk.
12. Mrs Venetia Wade.