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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 John Payne

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
F. J. Payne
(Frederick John Payne)
(Payne, Frederick John)
Service no 11440
Private, Dorsetshire Regiment, 6th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at Clifton Street, Surrey; lived in South Lambeth
Killed in action 4 July 1916
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Frederick John Payne, 22, was a general labourer living at 6 Horace Street, Stockwell, where his family had four rooms. His father, Samuel Payne, 54, was a general labourer from Stogumber, Somerset; his mother Sarah Ann Payne, 50, was born in Surat, India. Frederick had five siblings (one had died), three of whom lived at home: Arthur Samuel Payne, 20, a brewer's labourer; Ellen Kate Payne, 16, a scullery maid; Richard James Payne, 13. All were born in South Lambeth.