Herbert Stone

Second Lieutenant Herbert Stone, who was born Herbert William Degetau Schmidt, was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 26 May 1879, at 8 Jew's Walk, Sydenham,Taylor, James W. (2005), The 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War, p. 314. the son of insurance underwriter Waldemar and Alma Louise Schmidt (née Degetau), of Denmark and the Danish West Indies, respectively. Stone studied at Westminster, and in 1898 settled in Shanghai. He belonged to the settlement's volunteer corps until 1904, and served with it during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. At the outbreak of war in 1914, Stone was in London,The Times (41156), p. 13: "Fallen Officers". 2 May 1916. and enlisted in December in the 19th Royal Fusiliers.
Stone was commissioned on 25 May 1915, in the 4th Connaught Rangers. He went to the Western Front in December, on attachment to the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, and was admitted to a Red Cross hospital in January 1916 for influenza. Stone was killed by a shell on 26 April 1916.
He is buried in Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St Eloi.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Stone, Herbert William Degetau, cwgc.org. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
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