Stanley Ince, an old friend, had become Commissioner for North East London when Roland joined up in 1914. A family man, he had tragically been attacked by Parkinson's Disease and had to come to terms with its insidious progressive crippling effect. By the time he took on the wardenship in 1928 he had already lost power in his legs and was forced to get around by motorised chair. During the next 12 years he became steadily more incapacitated and by the time that even his indomitable spirit could no longer cope with the physical problems and he felt compelled to resign (in 1940), only his head and the upper part of his body were still functioning properly. A greater contrast with the physically active and vibrant Roland it is difficult to imagine. It was one of those remarkable situations when opposites complement each other and Stanley Ince was exactly the right man to bring Roland's ideas to fulfillment.

The stories told about Stanley Ince are many but they all tell of his courage, his care for others, his thoroughness, his calm and, the characteristic he shared with Roland, his deep, but simple, Christian faith. Such was his example that in 1938, by B-P's own special wish, Stanley Ince was awarded the Cornwell Badge -normally restricted to boys only. In 1941 he became an OBE and died in August of that year.