This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. E. Purslow (Albert Edward Purslow) Service no 170 Corporal, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 7th Battalion Born at Stonehouse, Devon; enlisted at Kingston on Thames; lived in Brighton Died on 18 November 1916, aged 21 Remembered at Stump Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Stonehouse is very near Plymouth Brother of William Charles Purslow. Information from the 1911 census William Purslow, 21, and Albert Purslow, 15, were shop assistants, William for a hosier and Albert for an oilman. The household lived in four rooms at 15 Burnley Road, Stockwell. Charles Purslow, 50, from Lydford in Devon, was a musician in a music hall (Surrey Music Hall was in Lansdowne Way); Alice Purslow, 46, was from Plymouth. They had four children, three of them living at home: William Purslow, 21, born in Plymouth Albert Purslow, 16, born in Stonehouse, Devon George Purslow, 7, born in Fulham |
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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. £3 from every copy sale goes directly to the Friends of Stockwell War Memorial and Gardens Available from www.elefantbooks.com. £8.99 plus £2.75 p&p Special deals for SW8 and SW9 residents ♦ 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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