Date of Birth
28 August 1891
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Clifton Road C.S. Birmingham
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Second Lieutenant
R.G.A., 329th Siege Battery
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
13 November 1917
Buried/memorial
Menin Road South Military Cemetery (Grave/Memorial reference: III. M. 17.)
Biography
Second Lieutenant Lewis James Stribling was the son of Mrs A. M. Stribling and Mr L. T. Stribling. He attended Borough Road College for two years, graduating with an Intermediate Sciences qualification. Whilst at the college he competed in an inter-college sports day in 1913. He is listed as being destined for a school in Birmingham after leaving the college. Stribling enlisted in September 1914 into the Royal Engineers and rose to Corporal before being commissioned into the 329th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. He was killed on 13 November, aged 26.
Sources
Entry on p.87 [Roll of Honour page], BFSS/2/9/8/6 [BRCIC006], 1914 Annual Reports, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission), Commonwealth War Graves Commission