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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.
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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 John Painter

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
C. J. Painter
(Charles John Painter)
(Painter, Charles John)
Service no 281508
Serjeant, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 2nd/4th Battalion
Enlisted at Shaftesbury Street; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 15 May 1917
Remembered at Arras Memorial, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the Watsham family
Charles John PAINTER was the husband of Gertrude Annie WATSHAM. Their marriage was registered in the March quarter 1915, and the birth of their (only child) daughter Joan PAINTER was registered in the June quarter of 1916. Gertrude Annie married a Harold F. NOBLE in 1924. They had no children. Gertrude died in 1973.