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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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Alfred Bernard Gude

his name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
A. B. Gude
(Alfred Bernard Gude)
(Gude, Alfred Bernard)
Service no 1556
Private, London Regiment, 24th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Kennington; lived in Stockwell
Died aged about 19 on 16 June 1915
Remembered at Wandsworth (Streatham) Cemetery, London SW16, at Waterloo Station War Memorial, London SE1 and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the censuses
In 1911 the Gude family lived at 26 Willington Road, Stockwell, where they occupied 4 rooms.Thomas George Gude, 39, was an engine driver for the London and South West Railway. He was born in Battersea. Alice Milly Gude, 47, was born in Clapham. Alfred Bernard Gude, their only child, was a messenger lad for the London and South West Railway.
Ten years previously, in 1901, the Gude family lived at 17 Union Street, Clapham. Two locomotive engine firemen, Walter H. Dizzard, a 26-year-old single man born in Guildford, Surrey, and William E. Burnard, 20, single and from Southsea, Hampshire, lodged with the family.