683054 Cpl Gerald A J Stocker MM, 22nd London Regt

683054 Corporal Gerald Arthur Julian Stocker MM, of the 22nd (County of London) Battalion, (The Queen's) The London Regiment, was killed in action on the 6th July 1917. He had formerly served with the 3/4th Queen's Regiment and, according to Soldiers Died in The Great War, had the number 223. I find this a little curious as this number suggests an early, 1908 enlistment with what would then have been the 4th Battalion, Queen's, and yet Gerald was only 19 when he died in 1917 which effectively rules this out.

Gerald's medal index card indicates that his original 22nd London Regiment number was 6100 which places the date of his transfer to July or August 1916. He was 19 years old when he died and, according to The Commonwealth war Graves Commission, was the son of Frederick John and Julia Elizabeth Stocker of 67 Bencham Manor Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. He is buried in Oak Dump Cemetery near Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission