World war impacts on Stocking relatives

It seemed fitting on Remembrance Sunday to find out more about ancestors and relatives who fought in the two world wars. I already knew that one of my great-great uncles, Aaron Archibald STOCKING , had been killed in the first world war. I also knew that he and his wife Emma had had at least one son, Stanley Aaron Archibald STOCKING, born three months after his father's death at the end of 1917. A simple Google search for Stanley's full name brought news of further impact of war on the family.

Royal Marine Stanley AA STOCKING is listed as a crewman on HMS Repulse, which sank under Japanese fire off Singapore on 10th December 1941, on the Force Z Survivors web site . Stanley was on board and survived. The site features photographs and stories about the ships making up Force Z and their crew. Stanley's name and service number only are featured. I don't know what happened to him after the war, whether he married and had children, but there is a death index entry for him, aged 75, in Greenwich, South London, in November 1993.