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THESE WERE OUR SONS: Stories from Stockwell War Memorial

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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 Hine

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
A. Hine
(Alfred Hine)
(Hine, Alfred)
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, "A" Bty. 280th Bde.
Service no. 925397
Died of wounds on 7 September 1917
"Son of Thomas George and Frances Hine, of 24, Union St., Clapham, London."
Brother of William F. Hine
Remembered at Nunhead (All Saints) Cemetery, south-east London

Information from the 1911 census
Alfred and William F. Hine were sons of licensed victuallers Thomas Hine, 51, born in St. Pancras, north London and Frances Hine, 46, born in Bethnal Green, east London. There were six children:
Florence Hine, 21, assisting in the business, born in St. Pancras
Thomas Hine, 19, an upholsterer, born in St. Pancras
William F. Hine, 17, a shop assistant, born in Bethnal Green
Alfred Hine, 15, an engineer's assistant, born in Bethnal Green
Ellen Hine, 13, born in Stockwell
A daughter, Elizabeth Hine, 22, lived elsewhere.
In 1911 the family was living in nine rooms at 36 Grove Road, Upper Holloway. In 1901, however, they were living at 15 Wilcox Road, South Lambeth.