This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. E. Ball (Arthur Edward Ball) (Ball, Arthur Edward) Service no 10231 Serjeant, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Battalion Killed in action on 23 July 1916, aged 23 Son of Charles and Sarah Ball, of 58 Tasman Road, Stockwell, London. Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census In 1911 Arthur Edward Ball, then 17, was working as a compositor's apprentice and living at 58 Tasman Road, Stockwell with his father, Charles Ball, 47, a stone mason born in Isleworth, and his father's second wife, Sarah Ball, 42, born in Chelsworth, Suffolk. Other members of the household were William Ball, 21, a compositor, born in Kennington Fredrick Ball, 16, a bag carrier for a gas company, born in Kennington Frank Ball, 3, born in Stockwell |
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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 |
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