Francis Hugh Tilney's Story.
Birkenhead News 09 February 1918Death of Lieut. F. H. Tilney Stonex.
Lieutenant Francis Hugh Tilney Stonex, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the eldest son of Canon and Mrs. Stonex, of New Brighton Vicarage, Cheshire. He was educated at Elleray Park School, Wallasey, Rossall, and All Soul’s College, Oxford. He won a scholarship at Rossall, and was elected to a Bible clerkship at All Soul’s. At Oxford he obtained a 2nd Class in Hon. Mods., and was a good athlete, being president of Trinity College Club in 1913-14, and running for the Oxford University A team. On the two occasions when the Iffley Road record for the quarter-mile was established by G. R. L. Anderson in 1912, and by B. C. Rudd in 1914 he was third and second respectively. In spite of a very serious illness at the time when war broke out, he succeeded in obtaining a third class in the Honour School of Jurisprudence, in June, 1915, and gained his commission in the same month. He took part in quelling the Dublin Rebellion with his battalion, and saw a short service in France, being invalided home with shell shock in June, 1916, from which he recovered. His health, however, was undermined, and, after nine months in hospital, he was removed home, where he died on the 1st February, aged 25 years.