This is what I wrote for the Stone family (I am in touch with several distant relatives):
Driver 820762 Alfred Theophilus Stone, Royal Field Artillery
Private 41174 Sydney George Stone, 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment
Lance Corporal 203553 William John Stone, Rifle Brigade
The three sons of Alfred Stone, a carpenter, were all born in Balsall Heath, the family living in Brunswick Road and then Edgbaston Road, and later in Vincent Road. Two daughters, Annie and Alice, completed the family.
Their mother, also Annie, died in 1906, and Alfred married Nellie Long (the boys' Sunday School teacher). Alfred, the eldest son, moved out and worked as a piano frame maker. Sydney worked as a baker’s assistant.
This heartbreaking notice appeared in the Birmingham Mail in November 1918, just before the Armistice:
William has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Sydney is buried in the Sequehart British Cemetery No. 2 in Aisne in France.
Alfred Stone, the surviving brother, had married Louisa Warden in 1913, with son Alfred being born the next year and son Sydney in 1915. Alfred had enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September 1914, but was discharged after three weeks on medical grounds. However, he later joined the Royal Field Artillery as a Driver (not what it seems at first sight, a Driver worked with, looked after and rode the war horses which pulled the guns).
Alfred survived the fighting, and was due to be demobbed. On pre-demobilisation furlough, Alfred died in Dudley War Hospital on 3rd July 1919, from bronchitis and heart failure. His widow Louisa received £6 17s 3d from his effects, and a War Gratuity of £23 10s was invested in the Post Office Savings Bank on behalf of his children.