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THESE WERE OUR SONS: Stories from Stockwell War Memorial
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♦ Charles Parker - family man and engineer
♦ The four Rance brothers
♦ Triple tragedy: the Desaleux brothers
♦ Samuel Levy's wife
♦ Frank 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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Walter A Merrell

This name is on the Stockwell Green United Reformed Church war memorial
Merrell was not a casualty and spent his war in England. However, he is included, like others on the memorial, for his contribution.
Information is from his service record (British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1918)
Walter A. Merrell
(Merrell, Walter A.)
Service no 604465
Corporal, Royal Service Corps, 83rd Prisoner of War Company
Started in East Surrey Regiment, transferred to Northamptonshire Regiment
  • Enlisted 28 August 194 at Lambeth Town Hall
  • Character described as "very good"
  • Civilian occupation was variously, carpenter or painter. 1911 census says he is a "house decorator and paper hanger"
  • Worked for "W. Merrell, 107 Landor Road, Stockwell", his father
  • Merrell's pension application stated that he had been gassed in France in June 1915 and that he received gunshot wounds to the head in October 1915 and February 1918.  He complained of headaches and dizziness and lack of movement in his left arm, and other problems. However, the medical board - notoriously tough - rejected most his claims and awarded him a 30% pension.
  • Lived at 5 Kimberley Road
  • Married to Annie Parsons, 1905; three daughters, Annie Irene, b 1906, Dorothy May, b 1908, Hilda b 1909