Nathaniel Sidney Stacey

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Nathaniel Sidney Stacey was born in Motcombe, Dorset, on 27th May 1887, the son of Samuel and Caroline Stacey.  He lived his early life in Shorts Green, Motcombe, Dorset.   He enlisted on 11th December 1915 and was mobilized on 18th May 1916, joining the 35th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (Service No. 151426) but shortly after was transferred on 1st July 1916 to 29th TW Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment (Service No. 31881).  He was transferred yet again to the Labour Corps ('F' Company) and became part of the army of occupation in Germany at the end of the war. He had been promoted to Corporal and was eventually discharged on 22nd September 1920.  There is no information about any medals being awarded. He had married Margery Coleman in Ilfracombe, Devon, on 1st February 1916 and they went on to have one child.  The 1921 Census and the 1939 Register show him living at 2 Merridan Terrace, Ilfracombe, Devon, working as a Jobbing Gardener.  He died in 1971 and was buried in the Marlborough Road Cemetery, Ilfracombe, on 14 Jun 1971.