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THESE WERE OUR SONS: Stories from Stockwell War Memorial

by Naomi Lourie Klein. Every name is listed, with biographies for all those identified. The introduction gives an overview and the story of how the memorial was erected.
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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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William Alfred Rainbow

This name is on the Stockwell Green URC War Memorial
William Alfred Rainbow
(Rainbow, William Alfred)
Combatant (not a casualty)
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 William Alfred Rainbow lived at 2a Tasman Road, Stockwell, with his parents, George Rainbow, 53, a coal carman from Stockwell, and Margaret May Rainbow, 46, born in Chelmsford, Essex. The registered on the census are:
Albert George Rainbow, 15, a van guard, born in Wandsworth
William Alfred Rainbow, 13, born in Wandsworth
Edith Selina Rainbow, 10, born in Stockwell
Percy Richard Rainbow, 7, born in Stockwell
James Rainbow, 5, born in Stockwell