Colonel: Josiah Charles Stamp and family, bombing incident 16th April 1941

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Apologies copied from finagrave but I thought the information would be interesting.

    1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands was a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. Born in London he was the third of seven children. He left school at 16 and joined the Civil Service as a boy clerk in the Inland Revenue Department, where he rose to become assistant secretary in 1916. Meanwhile he was studying economics as an external student. He was awarded a first class degree (1911) by the University of London and a doctorate (1916) by the London School of Economics. He became the leading British expert on taxation. He look an active part in the work of the Royal Statistical Society serving as president in 1930 - 1932. In 1919 he changed career, leaving the civil service for business, to join as secretary and director Nobel Industries Ltd, from which Imperial Chemical Industries developed. He was knighted in 1920. In 1928 he was appointed a director of the Bank of England. He was raised to the peerage in 1938 as Baron Stamp of Shortlands. Stamp was killed by a bomb in 1941.



    THE RT HON LADY OLIVE JESSIE STAMP, J.P.,Age 63,Killed by enemy action at her home,Tantallon, Park Hill Road, Shortlands. Daughter of the late Alfred Marsh, of Grove Park; wife of Colonel Josiah Charles, 1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands,and mother of Wilfred Carlyle Stamp, both of whom were killed in the same incident.

    Wilfred Carlyle Stamp.He was 36 years old, killed, along with his parents, by enemy action on their home,Tantallon, Park Hill Road, Shortlands. His home was Farringleys, Park Hill Road, Shortlands and he was the husband of Katharine Mary Wickett. Although his father, Josiah Charles, 1st Baron Stamp was killed in the same incident, Wilfred was deemed to have survived his father by a few seconds, and to have inherited his peerage during that time: Wilfred Carlyle, the second Baron Stamp, is the briefest incumbent of any peerage

    Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp - Wikipedia
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    STAMP, JOSIAH CHARLES

    Rank:
    Colonel
    Date of Death:
    16/04/1941
    Age:
    60
    Regiment/Service:
    General Staff
    Commands and Staff.
    Awards:
    G C B, G B E
    Grave Reference:
    Sec. N.2. Grave 18159.
    Cemetery:
    BECKENHAM CREMATORIUM AND CEMETERY
    Additional Information:
    1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands. Son of Charles Stamp; husband of Lady Stamp (nee Marsh), who was killed in the same incident. D.Sc., LL.D., Chairman L.M.S. Railway, Director of the Bank of England, Member, Economic Advisory Council.

    STAMP, The Rt. Hon. Lady OLIVE JESSIE
    Rank:
    Civilian
    Date of Death:
    16/04/1941
    Age:
    63
    Regiment/Service:
    Civilian War Dead
    Reporting Authority:
    BECKENHAM, MUNICIPAL BOROUGH
    Additional Information:
    J.P.; of Tantallon, Park Hill Road, Shortlands. Daughter of the late Alfred Marsh, of Grove Park; wife of Josiah Charles, 1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands. Died at Tantallon, Park Hill Road.


    STAMP, WILFRED CARLYLE
    Rank:
    Civilian
    Date of Death:
    16/04/1941
    Age:
    36
    Regiment/Service:
    Civilian War Dead
    Reporting Authority:
    BECKENHAM, MUNICIPAL BOROUGH
    Additional Information:
    2nd Baron Stamp of Shortlands, M.A., A.C.A.; of Farringleys, Park Hill Road, Shortlands. Son of Josiah Charles, 1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands, and Olive Jessie his wife, of Tantallon, Park Hill Road; husband of Katharine Mary Wickett. Died at Tantallon, Park Hill Road.
    Sir Josiah Charles Stamp (1880 - 1941) - Find A Grave Photos
     
  2. RCG

    RCG Senior Member, Deceased

    Wednesday April 16, 1941, was the blackest day in the history of Bromley. Soon after dark on this spring evening the air-raid alert sounded and an attacking force of more than 650 bombers flew over Kent en route for London.
    In the borough of Bromley more than 140 people died, including Lord Stamp of Shortlands, his wife, his elder son and three daughters. (I do not think the three daughter died at this time)
    Family History, Stemp Chart 0372 Josiah Charles (Stamp) Stemp (Lord) G.C.B., G.B.E. F.B.A 1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands and Olive Jessie Marsh (Lady) (The Right Hon) J.P. Baroness of Shortlands
     
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  3. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    From 1927 until his death he was Colonel commanding the Royal Engineers Railway and Transport Corps, and became Honorary Colonel of Transportation Units in the Royal Engineers Supplementary Reserve in 1938.


    Josiah Stamp - Graces Guide
     

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