This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 F. D. Shea (Frederick David Shea) (Shea, Frederick David) Service no G/11619 Lance Corporal, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 11th Battalion Died of wounds on 19 January 1918, aged 28 Born in Peckham, enlisted at Lambeth, lived at Stockwell CWGC: "Son of Frances and the late James Shea, of Stockwell, London." Remembered at Giavera British Cemetery, Arcade, Italy and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the censuses Frederick David Shea, 22 in 1911, was a clerk in a grocery warehouse. He lived at 425 Forest Road, Walthamstow, east London in four rooms, which he shared with his mother, Frances Shea, 49, a widow from Clapham living on private income; sister Amelia Shea, 23, a booking clerk, born in Clapham; and brother George Shea, 14, born in Manor Park, east London. Ten years previously when Frederick Shea was a 12-year-old schoolboy, he lived with his grandmother, Amelia Coutirier, 67, a Clapham-born bookseller, at 209 Clapham Road, his uncle, Francis L. Coutirier, her 37-year-old married son described as a "bookseller's assistant" and born in Newington, and his younger brother, George Shea, 14, born in Manor Park, Essex. Information from British History Online (Survey of London, 1956)  "This is probably the oldest surviving house in Clapham Road, but unfortunately nothing has been discovered about its origin. It is a double-fronted house of three storeys, its painted stucco face clothing a front of mid or late 18th century date. The central doorway is surmounted by two windows and flanked on each side by a splay sided bay rising through the three storeys. The wood doorcase is of charming design, the arched opening being framed by panelled pilasters with consoles supporting an open triangular pediment. The front finishes with a cornice and blocking course." |
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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 |
Frederick David Shea |