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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 Edward Perry

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
A. E. Perry
(Arthur Edward Perry)
(Perry, Arthur Edward)
Service no 8367
Private, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 7th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 14 July 1916, aged 28
CWGC: "Son of William James and Selina Perry, of 45 Edithna Street, Landor Road, Stockwell, London."
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the censuses
In 1911 Arthur Edward Perry's parents and brother were living in four rooms at 45 Edithna Street, Stockwell. (I could not find Arthur Edward Perry on this census; the 1901 census shows him working, aged 14, as an errand boy.) William James Perry, 57, was a coach painter born in Lambeth; Selina Perry, 62, was from Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire. They had had six children; three survived: Arthur Edward; William John Perry, 36, a poulterer born in Lambeth; one other (name unknown).