Stanley Harry Lawrence

Mr Stanley Lawrence was one of the local observers and informers to Rev. Copleston. He was a farmer at the nearby Andrewshaynes Farm at Dalwood. His role as a Special Constable would have meant his movements around the area and interest in local events would not have been viewed with suspicion.

He was overheard once saying he “felt a bloody fool standing in the greenhouse at midnight waiting for Copleston so he could hand him a message”.

Stanley would have been very aware of the implications of invasion as staying with the family was his mother-in-law, Mrs Bedane, who had managed to escape occupied Jersey.

He married Marjorie Knowleman in 1929. She was the daughter of the late Harry Knowleman and Mrs Beane of the building firm Knowleman and Sons of Culmstock. He died in 1949 aged only 48.