Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld
Brigadier-General Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld CMG DSO (English: /ˈwʊlrɪtʃ ˈstænsfiːld/; 30 June 1877 – 22 February 1935) was a British army officer who served in the Boer War (1899–1902) and World War I, seeing action at the First Battle of Ypres and Battle of Passchendaele and other battles.
For the Tolpuddle Martyr, see Thomas Standfield.
Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld
British
Soldier
Ethel Hebden
2
United Kingdom
1897–1929
Early life[edit]
Stansfeld was born in Leeds on 30 June 1877, the youngest son of Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld (1822–1885), JP, of Weetwood Grange, Leeds.[1][2] His mother was his father's second wife Louisa Agnes Chapman, second daughter of Joseph Barker Chapman and granddaughter of Aaron Chapman.[3][4]
Family[edit]
Stansfeld married, in 1903, Ethel, daughter of William Hebden of Scarborough, Yorkshire, and they had two sons. One of these was Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wolrych Guy Stansfeld, DSO (1906–87) who served in the East Surrey Regiment during World War II.[2][7][8]