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1893 Oct/Dec Born Hartney Witney, Hants
1893 Dec 31. Baptised at Cove, Hants
1901 census at Tongham, Surrey
1910 Oct 18 Enlists in Dragoons. He is a farm labourer born Cove. Farnborough, Hants. 4 Hillside Cottage, Cove, Hants. Father James at 1 Hoebridge Rd, Old Woking, Surrey. Brothers, William, George, Ernest, Leonard.
1911 census. In the Army. 1St Cavalry Brigade, 2Nd Dragoon Guards, Wellington Lines, Aldershot
1913 Nov 21. Posted to India
1914 Nov 18. Posted back to UK
1914 Dec 16. Posted to Fance
1915 Apr 11. Posted back UK.
1915 Aug 22. 56 days detention for theft of comrades goods
1916 Jan 16. Sentenced to 42 days in jail. Absent without leave & escaping from custody.
1916 Oct 13. Discharged no longer physically fit for war service
1922 Aug 25 Lieutenant E N C Symonds MC, from Bere Island Garrison wounded when drawing money from bank in Castletown.
Bombardier James Archibald Stonehouse, Royal Garrison Artillery, from Bere Island Garrison wounded on the launch ‘Cambridge’ while returning to Berehaven when drawing money from bank in Castletown. Mate on the lauch ‘Cambridge’ also wounded
1923 March 6 Bombardier James Archibald Stonehouse, Royal Garrison Artillery committed suicide in Hospital . He had been wounded while serving with the Bere Island Garrison on the launch ‘Cambridge’ while returning to Berehaven with a party which had just drawn money from bank in Castletown on 25 Aug 1922. He was in hospital for an operation for gunshot wounds to both thighs from that incident and was depressed because he imagined he was not recovering.
1923 Mar 12 . Buried in Cove with South Hawley, Hants
