This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
F. W. E. Russell
(Frank William Edmund Russell)
(Russell, Frank William Edmund)
Service no 302875
Rifleman, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), "D" Coy. 1st/5th Battalion
Born in Southwark; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 16 August 1917, aged 26
CWGC: "Son of Mr and Mrs F. Russell, of 89, London Rd., Southwark, London; husband of Katherine L. Russell, of 33 St Martin's Rd., Stockwell, London."
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

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Information from the 1911 census and other sources
Commercial clerk Frank William Edmund Russell, 20, was the youngest child of Farnham-born Francis Russell, 49, the owner of a coffee shop at 89 London Road, Southwark, and Catherine Russell, 49, from Camberwell. He had two siblings, Catherine Annie Elizabeth Russell, 24, an assistant in the coffee shop, born in Walworth, and Emily Rosian Lucy Russell, 22, a milliner. The family lived in five rooms.
On 2 August 1915, at the Church of St. Saviour with St. Thomas in Southwark, Frank married Katherine Louisa Kies, the daughter of a German baker living at 34 Newcomen Street, Southwark. She later gave her address as 33 St Martin’s Road, Stockwell.