Alfred Stainer

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Alfred Stainer was born during 1881 in Shaftesbury, Dorset. He was the son of George Stainer, a mason, and Sarah Ann Stainer (nee Hanham). At the time of the 1911 Census he was single, working as a cabinet maker and living at 80 St. James, Shaftesbury though he shortly after married Dorothy Mary Dunn at St. Simon's Church, Bristol, on 5 Jun 1911. He enlisted in Dorchester as a Private in the 8th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Service No. 41708). He served in France and Flanders and was awarded the Victory and British War Medals (though the record shows the medals were returned and never claimed). He was presumed killed in action at the Ypres Salient on 16th August 1917 and his name appears on the Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 70 to 72). He is also remembered on the Park Walk War Memorial, Shaftesbury, and on the Holy Trinity Memorial Plaque, now in St. Peter's Church, Shaftesbury. He is also remembered on a cross/kerb (B77) in St. James's Churchyard with the words "Gave his life that we might live. Died at Ypres" and on the Ireland Memorial Record 1914-1918.  His widow, then living at 23 Albany Road, Sussex Place, Bristol, was granted a pension of 13s. 9d. (about 67p.) per week which was eventually paid to her from the 3rd May 1918 in Australia where she had moved to.  There were no children of the marriage. Dorothy remarried John Lawton in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during 1920 and she eventually died in Queensland, Australia, on 13 February 1937.