25th County of London Cyclist Battalion
The London Regiment


Nicholas STAPLETON


National Army Museum Catalogue

  • NAM. 1995-11-328 - 1
    Commemorative scroll awarded to the next of kin of Captain N Stapleton, 25th (Cyclist) Bn The London Regiment, who died during World War One 1914-1918; associated with covering letter with his British and Victory Medals, Jan 1923. 

  • NAM. 1995-11-328 - 2
    Covering letter with his British War and Victory Medals, Jan 1923; associated with commemorative scroll awarded to the next of kin of Captain N Stapleton, 25th (Cyclist) Bn The London Regiment, who died during World War One 1914-1918.


Name: Nicholas Stapleton
Death Date: 6 Dec 1918
Rank: Captain
Regiment: London Regiment
Battalion: 25th (County of London) Battalion (Cyclist)
Type of Casualty: Died

[Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919]


In Memory of

Captain N STAPLETON

25th Bn., London Regiment (Cyclists)

who died on 06 December 1918

Remembered with honour St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime
, France. Grave Ref. S. V. L. 6.

Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime , France. 
During the First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen . A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city. Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war. They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross and one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever . In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension, where the last burial took place in April 1920. During the Second World War, Rouen was again a hospital centre and the extension was used once more for the burial of Commonwealth servicemen, many of whom died as prisoners of war during the German occupation. The cemetery extension contains 8,346 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (ten of them unidentified) and in Block "S" there are 328 from the Second World War (18 of them unidentified). There are also 8 Foreign National burials here. The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

St Sever Cemetery and St. Sever Cemetery Extension are located within a large communal cemetery situated on the eastern edge of the southern Rouen suburbs of Le Grand Quevilly and Le Petit Quevilly. If approaching Rouen from the north, head for the centre of town and cross over the river Seine, following signs for Caen . Follow this route until you get to the 'Rond Point des Bruyeres' roundabout (next to the football stadium), then take the first exit into the Boulevard Stanislas Girardin. The cemetery is 150 metres down this road on the left. If approaching Rouen from the south, follow the N138 (Avenue des Canadiens) towards the centre of town. At the 'Rond Point des Bruyeres' roundabout (next to the football stadium), take the fourth exit into the Boulevard Stanislas Girardin. The cemetery is 150 metres down this road on the left. If arriving on foot, take the metro to St Sever Metro Station, then follow the Avenue de Caen until you get to the Avenue de la Liberation, then take this road and follow this, which will become the Boulevard du 11 Novembre. At the end of this road is the 'Rond Point des Bruyeres' roundabout. Take the first exit from this into the Boulevard Stanislas Girardin. The cemetery is 150 metres down this road on the left.

[Courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission]



 

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