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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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Archie J. Burrows

This name is on the St Andrew's War Memorial, inside St Andrew's Church, Landor Road, Stockwell, London SW9
Archie J. Burrows
(Archie John Burrows)
(Burrows, Archie J.)
Service no 18144
Private, East Surrey Regiment, 13th Battalion
Died age 27 on 25 September 1917
Son of William and Louisa Curtis Burrows, of Clapham, London.
Remembered at Wandsworth (Streatham) Cemetery, London and at St Andrew's
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Archie Burrows, then 20, born in Stockwell, was an auctioneer's clerk. In 1911 he was living with his parents, his 3 brothers and sister, along with her husband plus a boarder at 126 High Street, Clapham.
William Burrows, 61, born in Dunmow, Essex, was a draper's foreman
Louisa Burrows, 62, was born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Hilda Curtis Marrison, their married daughter, 32, was born in Leighton Buzzard
Her husband Bertram Wilfred Marrison, 33, born in Middlesbrough, was an insurance clerk
Frederick William Burrows, 30, born in Leighton Buzzard, was also an insurance clerk
Victor George Burrows, 23, born in Stockwell, was a corn merchant's assistant
William Arthur Burrows, 22, born in Stockwell, was a solicitor's clerk
Archie John Burrows, 20, as above
Arthur William Lee, 40, a chemist shop assistant born in Fareham, boarded with the family