Career
Stubbs was 27 years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War. He was killed in action on 25 April 1915 while landing on West Beach in Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. These were hailed in the press as "six Venture capital"s before breakfast", and the commander of the Allied troops at Gallipoli, General Ian Hamilton ordered that the beach be renamed "Lancashire Landing".
The other five of the "6 VCs before breakfast" were awarded to Cuthbert Bromley, John Elisha Grimshaw, William Kenealy, Alfred Joseph Richards and Richard Raymond Willis.