Ivan Stanley Hutchinson
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Ivan Stanley was the son of Iven/Ivan William (William) and Ellen Hutchinson (née Meek/Sandell). His father Ivan William was born in Radford in 1864, the son of Charles Hutchinson and his wife Frances (née Allwood m. 1858). His mother Ellen was the daughter of John Sandell and Sarah Meek and was born in North Creake, Norfolk, in 1866 (reg. Meek), the year before her parents' marriage at North Creake, although she later took the surname Sandell. In 1881 Ellen, a domestic servant (later a parlour maid), was living with her parents and her five siblings in North Creake. However, in 1891 she was recorded on the census as a visitor at 26 Palin Street, Radford, the home of Charles and Frances Hutchinson and their three children including Ivan. Ivan William and Ellen (Sandall) were married at Hyson Green St Paul in April 1891 and had three children who were born in Radford: Percy Woodvine b. 1892, Ivan Stanley b.1896 and Violet Madeline b.1902. William, Ellen and their two sons Percy and Ivan were living at 2 Forster Avenue, Radford, in 1901. Also in the household was Ellen's brother, William (James William b. 1875), a blacksmith's striker, and his wife who was a tobacco packer. William and Ellen's daughter Violet was born the following year. The family had moved to 8 Brixton Road, Radford, by 1911; William was now working as a joiner (lace manufacturer). He did not record his two sons' occupations on the census but his daughter Violet was school age. The CWGC record gives William and Ellen's address as 10 Coleridge Street, Radford. Ivan snr. died in 1938 aged 73. His widow Ellen was recorded on the 1939 England & Wales Register living with her married daughter Violet and her husband Frank Moore (m. 1927) at Albert Road, Nottingham. Her son Percy had married Ethel Moult in 1924 and they were living on Salisbury Street, Radford, with their daughter Doreen (b. 1925). Ellen died in 1955 aged 89.
2nd Bn Grenadier Guards. Served as Stanley Hutchinson The 2nd Battalion was based at Chelsea Barracks in August 1914 and was part of 4th (Guards) Brigade, 2nd Division. It mobilized and landed at Le Havre on 15 August 1914. The Battalion transferred to 1st (Guards) Brigade Guards Division, on 20 August the following year. Ivan Stanley was killed in action on 19 May 1915 ('death presumed on or since that date'). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France (Panel 2). CWGC - History of the Le Touret Memorial (extract): The Memorial is located in the Le Touret Military Cemetery, a short distance from the village of Le Touret. 'The Le Touret Memorial commemorates over 13,400 British soldiers who were killed in this sector of the Western Front from the beginning of October 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos in late September 1915 and who have no known grave ... Almost all of the men commemorated on the Memorial served with regular or territorial regiments from across the United Kingdom and were killed in actions that took place along a section of the front line that stretched from Estaires in the north to Grenay in the south. This part of the Western Front was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting of the first year of the war, including the battles of La Bassée (10 October – 2 November 1914), Neuve Chapelle (10 – 12 March 1915), Aubers Ridge (9 – 10 May 1915), and Festubert (15 – 25 May 1915) ... The British Expeditionary Force in French Flanders, 1914 - 1915: In October 1914, II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force moved north from Picardy and took up positions in French Flanders where they were immediately engaged in the series of attacks and counter attacks that would become known as the ‘race to the sea’. Over the course of the next year most of the British activity in this sector focused on attempting to dislodge the German forces from their advantageous position on the Aubers Ridge and capture the city of Lille, a major industrial and transport centre which the Germans had occupied early in the war. The ridge is a slight incline in an otherwise extremely flat landscape from which the Germans were able to observe and bombard the British lines. Following the British capture of the village of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, the Germans greatly strengthened their defences along the ridge, reinforcing their positions with thick barbed wire entanglements, concrete blockhouses and machine gun emplacements. These extra defences frustrated British attempts to break through enemy lines and led to very heavy casualties at the battles of Aubers Ridge and Festubert in May 1915.' (www.cwgc.org)
Note: UKSDGW gives place of birth as Stapleford Nottinghamshire. Birth registered Nottingham and census records give place of birth as Radford. CWGC Additional information: 'Son of Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson, of 10, Coleridge St., Radford, Nottingham.' Registers of Soldiers' Effects: his parents, Ivan W. and Ellen Hutchinson, were joint legatees. WW1 Pension Ledgers Index Cards: named his mother, Ellen Hutchinson.
