This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 F. Naish (Frank Naish) (Naish, Frank) Service no 37514 Private, Wiltshire Regiment, 1st Battalion, formerly 7371, Royal Berkshire Yeomanry Born in Lambeth; lived in Clapham Killed in action 18 September 1918, aged about 24 Remembered at Targelle Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Guislain, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census A tentative identification. This Frank Naish is the only one listed for Lambeth. In 1911 17-year-old Frank Naish lived at 3 Belgrave Terrace, Brixton. He was one of five children of Francis Naish, 46, who worked in a carriers department and was born in Castle Cary, Somerset, and Clara Naish, 45, from Jersey. The children were John Naish, 21, a leather cutter; Frank Naish; Dorothy Naish, 18, a milliner; Robert Naish, 15, a messenger; Evelyn Naish, 11. All were born in Brixton. There were two lodgers: Emily Payne, 44, a single cook, and Beatrice Payne, 43, a single nurse, both from Rotherhithe, south-east London. |
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