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Charles Parker - family man and engineer
The four Rance brothers
Triple tragedy: the Desaleux brothers
Samuel Levy's wife
Fran
k Mason, 16, the youngest
Cecil Philcox - Military Cross winner
Chris Dartnell - shell shocked
Cecil Philcox - killed in training
Harold J. Hill - a riddle solved
Harry Albert Nixon - syphilis treatment and conduct charges

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Remembrance Sunday at Stockwell War Memorial

posted 8 Nov 2009 15:30 by Naomi Klein

For pictures from today's ceremony, see www.stockwellnews.com

Acitivity on the site this week includes...

posted 6 Nov 2009 07:51 by Bathsheba Everdene



Charles Frederick Parker

posted 18 Oct 2009 01:16 by Naomi Klein   [ updated 18 Oct 2009 10:19 by Bathsheba Everdene ]

Ray, a descendant of one of the men on Stockwell War Memorial, has contacted me with fascinating information and pictures of his grandfather, Charles Frederick Parker, who died in 1918 in what became known as the Second Battle of the Somme.

Together we have pieced together a bit of Charles Parker's family history. Read more about the life of this hard-working engineer, family man and lifelong South Londoner.

St Andrew's

posted 4 Oct 2009 06:16 by Naomi Klein   [ updated 18 Feb 2011 08:16 ]

These are the names on the tiled war memorial inside St Andrew's Church, Landor Road, Stockwell, London SW9

To the glory of God and in proud memory of these sometime worshippers in this church, who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914-1919

Frederick A. Ansell 24 Aug 1916*
John E. Baker 13 Aug 1915
Edward J Barker 2 Aug 1917
William Bird 18 Jul 1918*
Andrew L. Brown 18 May 1916
Archie J. Burrows 25 Sep 1917
Leopold C. Burrows 22 Sep 1914
F. H. Stewart Caiger 11 Nov 1916
Walter W. Cook 28 Apr 1917*
George A. Duckett 8 Dec 1914
Henry W. Edney 17 Oct 1917*
Frederick Eversfield 28 Jun 1918 (Commonwealth War Graves Commission records this death as 24 Jun 1918)*
Leonard Fairclough 1 Jul 1916
Victor E. Finch 25 May 1915*
Ernest A. Girdlestone 17 Sep 1916*
Alfred C. Grout 25 Sep 1915*
Edward P. Gudgin 3 Dec 1917
Arthur P. Harold 19 Dec 1917*
Andrew Herriott 24 Aug 1918*
Archibald Herriott 26 May 1915*
John Herriott 17 Feb 1919*
John T. Hills 30 Nov 1917*
William B. Hudson 8 Oct 1916
Robert T. Jackson 6 Jul 1918
Hugh Jerwood 21 Mar 1918
William H. Jones 25 Apri 1918*
William W. Laming 13 Jul 1915
Frederick J. Lowles 18 Sep 1918*
Henry R. Machell 29 Sep 1918
Albert Mann 5 May 1915
Frederick Marlow 9 May 1915*
Frederick May
George McDowell 10 May 1916*
Cecil E. Morgan 27 Jan 1920
Harold Noakes July 1917
Birt E. Osborne 14 Jul 1919
Henry W. Penn 18 Jun 1917 (Commonwealth War Graves Commission records this death as 16 Jun 1917)*
Benjamin Peploe 2 Nov 1917
Albert T. Pilgrim 19 May 1918* (aka Thomas Albert Pilgrim)
William S. Preston 1 Jul 1918
Thomas Protheroe 26 Mar 1918*
Alfred Richardson 4 Sep 1918
Robert H. Roberts 7 Aug 1918*
Thomas W. Rudge 18 Nov 1916*
George F. W. Sach 21 Sep 1918*
William F. Sherwood 22 May 1916
Charles E. Small 31 Oct 1917*
Sydney G. Smith 26 Sep 1917*
Walter H. Stone 2 May 1917*
Fred T. Taylor 12 Nov 1918
Leonard H. Teakle 2 May 1915*
Frederick Tomlin 24 Mar 1918*
Albert J. Tooley 23 Jan 1916
Henry V. Tuckey 1 Jul 1916
William G. Ware 27 Mar 1915*
Arthur Webb 31 Aug 1918*
Henry I. White 15 Aug 1917*
Sidney C. Withey 8 Dec 1917*
Henry Woodley 26 Apr 1917
Thomas J. Woodley 15 Jun 1918*
Frank Wybrew 18 Sep 1916*

* Names marked with an asterisk are also on the Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9












More men Stockwell men identified

posted 30 Sep 2009 12:37 by Bathsheba Everdene

A picture of the beautiful First World War memorial inside St Andrew's Church, Landor Road, has yielded clues to the identities some of the men on the Stockwell War Memorial.

Many of the men listed are also on the Stockwell War Memorial.

I have updated the names index with new information for the men who are also on the Stockwell War Memorial. My next project is to identify those who are on both memorials and who I have not been able to trace. Helpfully, the memorial includes both first name and date of death, which makes it easier to find the men on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.




Leonard William Jenn - entry updated

posted 27 Sep 2009 13:47 by Naomi Klein

Read the revised version here.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission website has been upgraded

posted 7 Sep 2009 13:28 by Naomi Klein

The search functionality on CWGC website has been greatly improved - much better usability and increased visibility of results. I hope to identify some of the casualties on the war memorial that have previously been too difficult to identify.


New entry on Ernest Austin Hoare, chemist

posted 31 Aug 2009 00:04 by Naomi Klein

The story of young chemist Ernest Austin Hoare has been added to the Names index.

More information on Albert Rance

posted 28 Aug 2009 09:17 by Naomi Klein

Clare Stone has contributed more information about her grandfather, Albert Rance, who was one of four brothers who served in the World War One - two survived.

Stockwell Green United Reformed Church memorial found

posted 27 Aug 2009 09:09 by Naomi Klein   [ updated 6 Nov 2009 03:55 by Bathsheba Everdene ]

This war memorial was once displayed in the Stockwell Green United Reformed Church but was removed when the church was sold in 1991. It is currently kept in the basement of the crematorium of West Norwood cemetery. I have contacted the URC to suggest that another home is found for it.

Stockwell Green URC War Memorial

The Great War 1914-1918

To the glory of God
and
in Honour of the Officers and Men
connected with this Church and Sunday School
who served King and Country during the Great European War.

ROLL OF HONOUR

Allan, Justin D   
Best, Hubert C A
Broad, Frederick       
Clifford, George S   
Drake, Walter, F   
Edwards, John       
Emmins, Frederick H   
Gall, Bert       
Gaskell, William       
Gould, Charles       
Handley, Victor       
Graham, Arthur       
Groves, Robert T   
Hobbs, James, A   
Hyde, William E   
Johnson, Cyril       
Johnson, George       
Johnson, F. Harold   
Johnson, Thomas F   
Lait, William       
Martin, Sidney       
Martin, William       
     




Our Brave Dead
Gould, Leonard       
Johnson, Frank A.   
Johnson, W. Stanley   
Pennycate, John       
Slater, John       
Smith, William H.   
Terry, Sidney F.   
Treacher, Cyril
"Their name liveth ever more"
"Thine O Lord is the Victory"

THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945
In defence of their country at sea, abroad and at home
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE was made by

Lord, John
Taylor, Norman
Tickner, Cyril

McQuire, John       
Merrell, Walter A
Mitchell, Claude   
Oliver, Leslie F
Paines, Alfred   
Pickwell, Herbert   
Rainbow, William   
Richmond, Charles E
Seale, Archie   
Sheldrake, Albert   
Smellie, Alfred Junr
Springett, Frederick   
Taylor, Frederick   
Turner, Frank   
Twiselton, Joseph   
Ward, Charles    
Watford, Albert   

ALSO -
Epton, Beatrice
Mercer, Lily
Taylor, Ethel

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