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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
♦ 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
LINKS
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CONTACT
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© Naomi Klein

Stories


STOCKWELL WAR MEMORIAL, LONDON SW9
♦ William Reginald Guy Pearson - lost in an air accident
♦ Christopher Dartnell - shellshocked




♦ Harold Joseph Hill - a mystery in an old book
♦ Charles William Pace - missing after action
♦ Henry Wiliam Penn
♦ Arthur Penn - 'he died a manly death'
♦ Thomas Albert Pilgrim - a victim of pneumonia
♦ George Hand Porter - life in the Heavy Battery
♦ William Charles Purslow - died after amputation
♦ Bernard Allen Miller Dunning - succumbed to dysentery
♦ George Thomas Mullett - a long Army career ended in 1918
♦ Harry Robert Burvill - sent to convalescent home
♦ Frederick Avis - nearly went the distance
♦ Theodore Grace Barnes - victim of a war crime at sea
♦ Archibald Samuel Campbell - joined the war effort twice
♦ James Stephen Clack - killed by peritonitis
♦ Albert Sales - missing in action
♦ Thomas Pilgrim - a long Army career ended by pneumonia
♦ Ernest Thomas Skudder - died in bombing test
♦ Charles Edward Small - missing possessions
♦ H. G. Steed - left three small children
♦ Claude Lionel Whittingham - hospital orderly
♦ William Edward Crabb - succumbed to cerebral malaria
♦ Frederick Charles Hayden 
♦ Albert George Tilling - discharged with TB
♦ Charles John Totham - joined up at 15
♦ Arthur Stanley Manning - killed in Egypt
♦ Norman Cairns - leaving behind a mystery
♦ Walter Albert Ridout - returned from Canada to fight the war
♦ Harry Albert Nixon - syphilis and conduct charges
♦ Percy T. Bass - small and skinny
♦ George Harry Glover - a mother's grief for her son
♦ Leonard William Jenn - a gunshot wound to the stomach
♦ Hugh John Kemp - first of two brothers
♦ George Dimond - died of leg wounds
♦ William Alfred Lamerton
♦ John Charles Miller - returned from Australia to fight
♦ George Ernest Starkey - too young
♦ John Alfred Stammers
♦ Sydney G. Smith
♦ Edwin Charles Smart - left a wife and four children
♦ The Stockton brothers
♦ Arthur Webb - comfort in a rosary
♦ Thomas Frederick Wellington - a careful man  
♦ Edward Ernest Winter - dropped his German name
♦ Samuel James - died a POW
♦ Benjamin James George - died in Germany
ST MARK'S CHURCH, KENNINGTON OVAL
♦ George Jarratt - jumped on a grenade and earned a V.C.


♦ Edgar Churcher - Olavian and student teacher


♦ H. C. V. Williams - returned from rural Canada to fight


♦ Henry Styles - "not right in the head"
♦ Edward Warren - "I love Minnie Vosper"
♦ Frederick William West - immature and undersized
♦ Edwin Bertram Myers - Surrey  cricketer
♦ Ernest R. J. Bailey - multiple offender
♦  Thomas Shaill - died with Lord Kitchener
♦ Leonard Alfred Baker - leaving a widow desperate for cash
♦ John William Hallinon - poor Emily, twice widowed
♦ Stanley Henry Compson - sad enquiries from his father
♦ Samuel John Crocker - "The necessity for the removal of the body is much regretted"
♦ William Dobbins - Kennington bad boy
♦ Arthur Thomas Faith - hardworking and unremarkable
♦ John Walter Marr Millard - an only son
♦ Francis Edward Gary - not suited to military life
♦ Albert Edward Slough - fitter's mate with the Nugget Polish Co.
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