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Name Herbert William Degetau STONE   
Rank/Number 2nd Lieutenant   
Regiment Royal Irish Rifles   2nd Battalion
Enlisted  
Age/Date of death 36      26 Apr 1916 
How died/Theatre of war Killed in action   France & Flanders
Last known address  
Cemetery Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St Eloi, Pas de Calais, France 
Grave or Memorial Reference I.G.15 
Location of memorial Beaconsfield War Memorial
Date/Place of birth c1880      Sydenham, London
Date/Place of baptism  
Pre-war occupation of Casualty served in Army in Boxer Rebellion 1900 
Parents Waldenar & Alma L Schmidt
Parent's occupation underwriter
Parents' Address (last known) Uplands, Burkes Rd, Beaconsfield 
Wife Sister - Miss R A Stone 
Wife's Address (last known) Okeburn, Hazel Grove, Hindhead, Surrey 
Notes changed name from Schmidt to Stone - see London Gazette 11 May 1915. Formerly Pte 3673 19th Royal Fusiliers. Father born in Denmark 

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