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Regiment: Worcestershire Regt.
Died: 27 April 1918 aged 23 in France. Killed in action near Amiens.
Cemetery: Adelaide Cemetery Villiers Bretonneux II J 8
Born: December 27th 1895. Son of Herbert Stanley Stone, M.D., and Kate Stone, Beechwood, Reigate.
Army III—I. School Prefect. XI Cricket and Football.
R.M.C. Sandhurst; 1st Bn. Worcestershire Regiment 1914; Captain 1917. M.C., Despatches (2).
He was a contemporary at Malvern of C. S. Lewis, who wrote home to his father in October 1913: 'The mother of Stone .. has died this week and he has consequently gone home. It is a very nasty business.' C. S. Lewis also served in the trenches and was wounded in April 1918.
He was wounded by a bullet which passed through his left arm on the 9th September 1915 at Hooge.
He was again wounded in 1917 by a gunshot wound in the left leg.
'Noel Stone was a very attractive and blameless boy at School; his career was successful in every way, and he was both liked and respected by all, though somewhat undemonstrative. He represented the School with credit both at cricket and football. When he entered the Army (his chosen profession) he soon showed himself a worthy representative of Malvern in the splendid county regiment. His Military Cross, finely won, gave promise of even greater things. Dis aliter visum (It seemed otherwise to the Gods)'. (Malvernian, Jun 1918).
Wisden
Service record:WO 339/23639
Unit War Diary:WO 95/1723/1