This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. G. Potter (Arthur George Potter) (Potter, Arthur George) Service no 12028 Private, Coldstream Guards, 3rd Battalion Enlisted at Clifton Street; lived in Clapham Died on 13 April 1918, aged 39 CWGC: "Son of Mr and Mrs J. B. Potter, of 6 Alexandra Mansion, Stonhouse Street, Clapham; husband of Louisa Potter, of Larkhall Lane, Clapham, London." Remembered at Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the censuses In 1911 31-year-old Arthur George Potter was working as a messenger for the Board of Education. He lived in three rooms at 86 Southville, Wandsworth Road, with his wife Louisa Ann Potter, 39. They were both born in Lambeth. A decade previously he lived with his parents, John Potter, a 53-year-old railway inspector born in Croydon, and Mary A. Potter, 54, originally from Sellack, Herefordshire. Arthur Potter's brother Harold Potter, 17, was a railway engine cleaner. Henry Potter, 14, was still at school. The brothers were all born in Lambeth. The family lived at 19 Rosetta Street. The 1891 census shows that there was another brother, Walter, a year younger than Arthur, and born in Battersea. |
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