Corporal in the 1/13 London Regt. The "1/" may be wrong, it is very difficult to read the inscription at this point.
Andrew Behan has researched this man: Corporal Stanley Albert Crampton was born on 21 March 1897 in North End, Hampstead, the youngest of the nine children of James Crampton and Mary Jane Crampton née Davies. His father was a gardener and he was baptised at Christ Church, Hampstead on 30 May 1897. The 1901 census shows him living at 6 Heath Passage, North End, Hampstead with his parents and six of his siblings. When he was aged six years his father died in 1903. The 1911 census states that he was living with his widowed mother and three of his siblings, still at 6 Heath Passage. His occupation was shown as being both at school and a house boy.
When he was aged 17, on 26 March 1914, at 8.00pm, he was confirmed at St Stephen's Church, Hampstead by the Bishop of Willesden. He obtained employment as a clerk at Hughes and Son, John Street, London, W.C. and within a very few weeks of the outbreak of World War One in August 1914 he enlisted in 2nd/1st (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) and his service number was 2985. He landed on the Gallipoli Peninsular on 30 August 1915 and was promoted to the rank of corporal. In April 1916 he was transferred to the 1st/13th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Kensington) and given the service number 7679. In 1917 when service numbers were changed to six digits his number became 493618.
He died of wounds received in action, aged 21 years, on 21 April 1918 at the 57th Casualty Clearing Station in Aubigny, France and was buried in Plot 3, Row B, Grave 50 of the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Aubigny-en-Artois, near Arras, France. On 25 September 1918 his mother was sent his army effects totalling £10-7s-0d and on 25 November 1919 she was sent his war gratuity of £18-0s-0d. He was posthumously awarded the 1914-1915 Star, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal. He is also commemorated on the war memorial tablet inside Christ Church, Hampstead Square, Hampstead.
