This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. J. Tooley (Albert John Tooley) (Tooley, Albert John) Service no 1797 Private, London Regiment (County of London), 20th Battalion Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Blackheath; lived in Brixton Killed in action on 23 January 1916, aged 23 CWGC: "Only son of John and Bessie E. Tooley, of 44 Stockwell Green, Stockwell, London." Remembered at Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay, France, as well as Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 and inside St Andrew's Church, Landor Road, London SW9 Information from the censuses Albert John Tooley, 18 in 1911, was a student teacher born in Stockwell. He lived in a three-roomed apartment at 14 Kimberley Road, Stockwell with his parents John Tooley, 56, a railway guard from Stockwell, and Bessie Tooley, 56, from St Columb, Cornwall. He was an only child (his parents had had two other children who died). |
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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 |
Albert John Tooley |