260943 Pte. Joseph Stanley May British Army 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (d.21st Aug 1918) Joe May was one of four brothers who fought in WWI, of whom only one survived. Two of them, including Joe, died in the final few weeks of the conflict. Joe was my grandmother's cousin. Her only brother, Stanley Ernest May, 1/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was killed on the first day of the Somme in 1916. Joe's brothers were Percy White May, who was killed on 16th fo June 1916 and is buried in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue; and Ernest William May, Royal Field Artillery, who died in Heilsberg POW Camp on 4th of October 1918 and is buried in Berlin. Harold Brook May also served with the Sherwood Foresters. He survived the war and died in 1969.
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