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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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Arthur Alexander Jeffery

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
A. A. Jeffery
(Arthur Alexander Jeffery)
(Jeffery, Arthur Alexander)
Service no 4802
Private, East Surrey Regiment, 8th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in St Paul's churchyard; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 1 July 1916, aged about 27
CWGC: "Husband of Mrs D. Blacklock (formerly Jeffery), of Toronto, Canada."
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 an Arthur A. Jeffery was boarding at 88 Portland Place North with his brother Albert V. Jeffery. They occupied 2 rooms. Arthur, 22, was a commercial clerk; Albert, 23, was a "dairy utensil maker". They were both born in Lambeth.