Notts Free Press, 14th July 1916
PEMBLINGTON S.
Stephen Pemblington
Private
PO/107(S)
Portsmouth Bn. R.N. Div, Royal Marine Light Infantry
Stephen Pemblington died on Tuesday 13 July 1915, Age 30, and is commemorated on the HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey.
Private Pemblington was one of "Kitcheners Marines", who were transferred from the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regt) to the RMLI.
"600 RMLI transfers came from 2 regiments - 200 from the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI), and 400 from the Sherwood Foresters. They were predominantly ex-miners and labourers, fit men wanted for their ability to dig trenches and tunnels. The 200 KOYLI recruits were transferred to Plymouth Division RMLI, and were given service numbers PLY/1(S) to PLY/200(S). This was also the case for the Sherwood Foresters, 200 of which were dispatched to Portsmouth where already 30 men were recruited, and so they became PO/31(S) to PO/230(S). 200 remaining Foresters went to Chatham and were numbered CH/1(S) to CH/200(S)."
He was born c1885 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, and was the son of Thomas and Margaret Pemblington. Thomas Pemblington was a General Agricultural Labourer and a native of Farnsfield, who married Margaret Smith at Farnsfield in March 1881. By 1901 the family were living in Sutton-in-Ashfield, and in 1915 they resided at 58 Sherwood Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Stephen Pemblington was also husband of Elizabeth Pemblington.
Notts Free Press, 14th July 1916
Researched by Heather Faulkes
Information on "Kitcheners Marines" kindly supplied by Des Turner
