This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 C. T. Markham (Charles Thomas Markham) (Markham, Charles Thomas) Service no 232431 Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 2nd Battalion, also Royal Fusiliers, attd. 7th Battalion Born in Wandsworth; enlisted in Clapham; lived in Lambeth Killed in action on 6 April 1918 Remembered at Pozieres Memorial, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census This identification is somewhat tentative. We do not have a year of birth for Charles Thomas Markham. In 1911 a Charles Markham, born in Wandsworth, was living at 75a Ellerslie Road, Clapham. He was 16 and working as a grocer's shop assistant. The household included his father, William Markham, 46, a carpenter and joiner from Framingham, Suffolk, and his mother, Mary Ann Markham, 45, from Holburn, London. They had had 8 children, 6 surviving. Apart from Charles there were 3 children living at home: Jessie Markham, 12, born in Stockwell; Sidney Markham, 7, born in Clapham; and Stanley Markham, 4, born in Stockwell. |
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Charles Thomas Markham |