Stanley Platt was born in 1926 in the Runcorn registration district, the son of John W. Platt and his wife Ethel M. (nee Jackson) who was from Widnes.
A daughter named Marjorie was born in 1928, but sadly died aged two years. A son named Brian was born in 1931 but died the same year.
By 1939 the Platt family were living at 120, Aston Lane in Preston Brook. The father was employed as a coal horse labourer and the mother looked after the household. Stanley would have been at school.
The electoral rolls for 1945 and 1946 recorded the parents, but not Stanley, as living on Aston Lane. The first electoral roll record of Stanley Platt was on the October 1948 Service Register for Preston Brook, indicating that he was still on active service after WW2.
Nothing more is definitely known of Stanley Platt after 1948.
It is not known in which branch of H.M. Forces he served, but he appeared in an article in the Warrington Guardian in June 1946 about Victory Celebrations in Preston Brook.
If anyone has any knowledge of his WW2 service and his life after the war, please contact Daresbury District Heritage Group.
