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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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Arthur Ernest Homewood

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
A. E. Homewood
(Arthur Ernest Homewood)
(Homewood, Arthur Ernest)
Service no 59585
Private, Northamptonshire Regiment, "B" Coy. 6th Battalion
Enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Lambeth
Died age 20 on 4 November 1918
CWGC: "Son of Eliza Ann Homewood, of South Lambeth, London, and the late John Homewood."
Remembered at Preux-au-Bois Communal Cemetery and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
Arthur Ernest Homewood, 13, who was at school and also working as a grocer's errand boy, lived with his widowed mother at 18 Radnor Terrace, South Lambeth (now disappeared). The family occupied 4 rooms. Eliza Ann Homewood, 53, earned her living as a charwoman in private houses. She was born in Bermondsey. Her sons were:
John Edward Homewood, 22, a warehouseman in a government office
Thomas George Homewood, 16, a messenger for the "Army & Navy Auxiliary and Co-operative Stores"
Arthur Ernest Homewood, 13
All were born in South Lambeth.