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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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Frederick Alfred Ansell

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
F. A. Ansell
(Frederick Alfred Ansell)
(Ansell, Frederick Alfred)
Service no S/16820
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own), 1st Battalion
Born in Stockwell, lived in Balham
Killed in action aged 24 on 21 August 1916
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 and inside St Andrew's Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 the Ansell family was living at 39 Willington Road, Stockwell. Frederick William Ansell, 51, was a printer's compositor, born in Westminster; Clara Ansell, 48, was also born in Westminster. Of her 7 children born alive, 6 survived. All were born in Stockwell.
Frederick Alfred Ansell, 19, was an apprentice compositor
Amy Ansell, 18, was a dressmaker
Sidney Edwin Ansell, 16, umbrella maker
Florence Victoria Ansell, 14
Arthur Charles Ansell, 10
Harold Irvin Ansell, 2
Information from the 1901 census
In 1901 the Ansell family lived at 30 Arlesford Road.