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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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Charles James Stanley

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
C. J. Stanley
(Charles James Stanley)
(Stanley, Charles James)
Service no 2862
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd/47th Div. Ammunition Col.
Died on 14 September 1916, aged about 24
Remembered at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Charles James Stanley lived in four rooms at 23 Clarence Street, Studley Road with his widowed mother, Henrietta Stanley, 46, who was born in Lambeth. He was 19 and a carter. His siblings were:
William Stanley, 27, a butcher's assistant, born in Lambeth
Minnie Stanley, 21, a "layer on", born in Lambeth
Ernest Stanley, 11, born in Clapham
Ethel Stanley, 8, born in Stanley
Henrietta Stuart, 26, married, born in Lambeth
Henrietta Stuart's, husband, Sidney Stuart, 27, a general labourer, born in Bermondsey
Minnie Stuart, 1, their daughter, born in Clapham
Alice Stuart, 6 months, born in Lambeth
Henrietta had had 10 children, seven surviving.