This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. H. Watts (Alfred Herbert Watts) (Watts, Alfred Herbert) Service no 44390 Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles, 15th Battalion; formerly London Regiment Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Lambeth Killed in action on 14 October 1918, aged 20 CWGC: "Son of Mrs S. J. Watts, of 28 Rosetta Street, South Lambeth, London." Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the censuses Alfred Herbert Watts, a 13-year-old schoolboy in 1911, also found work as a milkboy. He lived at 28 Rosetta Street, South Lambeth, where his family had five rooms. Alfred's father, George Henry Watts, 49, from Trowbridge, Wiltshire was a carman, working for the London & South West Railway. His mother, Sarah Jane Watts, 46, was from Yarnbrook, Wiltshire. They had two other children: Water Henry Watts, 22, a packer in a tea warehouse, and Elsie May Watts, 17, a dressmaker. Daisy Laura Neale, 9, a niece from Heywood, Wiltshire, lived with the family, as did Albert Taylor, a 35-year-old single boarder, whose occupation is unrecorded. |
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