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THESE WERE OUR SONS: Stories from Stockwell War Memorial

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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 Gillard

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
F. Gillard
(Frederick Gillard)
(Gillard, Frederick)
Second Lieutenant, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 9th Battalion
Died age 20 on 24 August 1918
CWGC: "Only son of Frederick and Harriet Eliza Gillard, of 25 Studley Road, Clapham, London."
Remembered Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
The Gillard family lived at 48 Akerman Road where they occupied 5 rooms. Frederick Gillard, 41, was a lithographic printer, born in Blackfriars, London. Harriet Hillard, 34, was also from Blackfriars. Frederick Gillard, 12, their only son, was born in Kennington, as were their 3 daughters:
Amy Gillard, 10
Rose Gillard, 9
Florence Gillard, 7
There was a boarder, Christopher Wright, a single grocer's assistant from Bermondsey, south-east London.