This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 F. S. Minter (Frank Sidney Minter) (Minter, Frank Sidney) Service no 60899 Private, Royal Fusiliers, 22nd Battalion. Formerly 4542, East Surrey Regiment Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Clapham; lived in Upper Tooting Killed in action 10 March 1917 aged about 35 Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census Frank Sidney Minter was a 29-year-old commercial traveller selling herbs and seeds. He was born in South Lambeth, and was married to Ada Mary Minter, also 29, from Stockwell. They lived in three rooms at 49 Jeffreys Road, Stockwell, and had one child, Lilian Ada Minter, 5 months, born in South Lambeth. Mary Goldsmith, 63, Ada Mary's mother, a laundress born in the City, lived with them. |
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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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