This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. W. Newcombe (Alfred William Newcombe) (Newcombe, Alfred William) Service no 33465 Private, Bedfordshire Regiment, 8th Battalion Born at Marylebone; enlisted at Bedford; lived at Watford, Hertfordshire Killed in action on 27 June 1917 Son of William Newcombe, of 96 Southville, Clapham Common, London. Remembered at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census Alfred Newcombe, 17, worked as a grocer's assistant and lived at 89 Priory Grove, where his family occupied four rooms. William Newcombe, his 42-year-old father, was a labourer from Wembworthy, North Devon; his mother, Betsy Newcombe, 43, was from Peterborough. Alfred's sister, Maud Newcombe, 16, born in Clapham, worked in a factory. |
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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 |
Alfred William Newcombe |