Stanley Phillipps Fryer - Royal Field Artillery, 30th Battery

Second Lieutenant Stanley Phillipps Fryer - Royal Field Artillery, 30^th Battery

Early Life and Family

Stanley Phillipps Fryer was born in 1886 at Pembroke, the son of Herbert Edward Fryer and Edith Maud Phillipps, of Swansea.

1901 Census

At the time of the 1901 Census, Stanley was recorded as a boarder and pupil at a school in Weston-super-Mare, receiving his education away from home.

Marriage and Civilian Life

In 1908, Stanley married Bertha Mary Greaves in Swansea.

1911 Census

By the 1911 Census, the couple were residing at 33 Featherstone Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham. Stanley (25) was employed as a Commercial Traveller, while his Birmingham-born wife Bertha Mary (29) managed the household. Their only child at that time was Bertha Muriel Eileen, aged 2.

Stanley became well known in Birmingham football circles, assisting Moor Green Football Club for several seasons and earning a respected reputation within the local sporting community.

Military Service

Stanley enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company in August 1915, proceeding to Egypt in November 1915. He served throughout the campaign until September 1917, when he returned to England holding the rank of Battery Sergeant.

Recommended for a commission, he was gazetted in February 1918 as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, 30^th Battery, and went to France in May 1918, during the final Allied offensives of the war.

Death and Burial

Birmingham Daily Post

On 27^th October 1918, only weeks before the Armistice, Second Lieutenant Stanley Phillipps Fryer was killed in action.

He is buried at La Vallée-Mulâtre Communal Cemetery Extension, Aisne, France.

His death was reported in the Birmingham Daily Post in November 1918, marking the loss of a respected officer and well-known sporting figure