This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 C. Lissenden (Cecil Lissenden) (Lissenden, Cecil) Service no 156714 Lance Corporal, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 200th Coy., formerly 10935, Royal West Surrey Regiment Born in Stockwell; lived in Streatham Killed in action age 20 on 7 October 1918 CWGC: "Son of Mr W. C. Lissenden, of 51 Oxford Street, London." Remembered at Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the censuses In 1911 Cecil Walter Lissenden, aged 12, lived at 34 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell, an 8-roomed house, with his father, Cecil Cooper Lissenden, a 44-year-old singing master born in London, his grandfather, Walter Lissenden, 72, born in Lenham, Kent, and grandmother, Elizabeth Lissenden, 82, from Canterbury, Kent. Cecil and his father had lived at this address with Walter and Elizabeth since at least 1901, when Cecil Cooper Lissenden described himself as a dramatist and playwriter. Walter was a retired merchant tailor's assistant. |
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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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