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Spr. Stanley Rymell
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.21st Feb 1917)
Stanley Rymell, Sapper 205328, served in the Royal Engineers and died age 21 in a Military Hospital on the 21st February 1917. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow Library and in Jarrow Cemetery. T.205. His medal card shows the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medal.
He was born in Jarrow 1895, son of Joseph Rymell of 65 Catherine Street, Jarrow and the late Alice Rymell nee Miller. In the 1911 census the family is living at that address with Joseph Rymell(49) widower, a steel worker and 6 sons. There is also a house keeper Margaret Chorley(36) widow. Three of the sons are working, Joseph(20), Frank(17) both Enginemen at the Steelworks and Stanley(15) an apprentice fitter at the shipyard. The three younger sons, Oswald(12), Lawrence(10) and Vincent (9) are all students.
Royal Engineers - It is difficult to establish where he served and what injury or illness led to his death in a military hospital without knowledge of the Company in which he served.
Update: From Stanley's Service Record on Ancestry we can see that he was an apprentice boilermaker aged 18 years and 5 months when he enlisted into the Durham Fortress Royal Engineers from 17/4/1913. He was 5 feet 3 inches in height and had good health and physique. He was in France19/9/1915-28/9/1915. He was admitted to a Field Ambulance with scabies on 25/9/1915.
By December 1916 he had transferred too IWTRE Corps (Inland Waterways & Docks). He was admitted to Hill House Military hospital in Kent with appendicitis on 21/12/1916 having been unwell for 3 months. Just prior to that his records state that on 10th December he would be "kept under close arrest whilst under hospital investigation as he broke out of isolation camp in barracks whilst suffering from infectious disease". On 18/2/1917 he was transferred to Military Hospital, Shorncliffe with increasing peritonitis symptoms and on 21st he sank rapidly and died at 10 pm.
