 This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9F. Marlow (Frederick Marlow) (Marlow, Frederick) Service no 2999 Private, London Regiment, 1st/13th Kensington Battalion Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Kensington; lived in Brixton Killed in action on 9 May 1915 CWGC: "Son of Mrs C. Marlow, of 15, Stansfield Road, Stockwell Road, Stockwell, London." Remembered at Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium, as well as the Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9, inside St Andrew's Church, Landor Road, London SW9 and at Caxton House, Tothill Street, London SW1 Information from BERR.gov.uk (Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) Before Frederick Marlow enlisted in the army, he was an abstractor in the Board of Trade - Labour Department (Central Office). He appears on a Board of Trade staff listed dated April 1913 as one of 47 Abstractors (New Class) in the Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance Branch. The date of his appointment was 29 May 1912 (from when his pension accrued) and his salary was £45. He is remembered on the new war memorial plaque, unveiled in BERR's headquarters at 1 Victoria Street, London SW1, on 11 November 2002, a replacement for a Roll of Honour to staff of the Board of Trade who fell in the First World War. (The original - shown left - has been missing for many years.) Marlow is also commemorated on the Memorial to the Staff of the Ministry of Labour, now hanging in Caxton House, Tothill Street, London SW1. British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920 Frederick Marlow's brother George also served in the Army (London Regiment, 15th Battalion). He described himself as a clerk at the Admiralty. The records show that he stood over 6 feet tall. He was discharged in late September 1918 as no longer physically fit for War Service (he suffered a gunshot wound to the left wrist). Information from the censuses In 1911 Frederick Marlow was a 16-year-old "boy clerk" working for the civil service. He lived at 15 Stansfield Road, Stockwell, with his parents, John Marlow, 53, a joiner from Twickenham, and mother Catherine Marlow, 51, from Gypsy Hill. The occupied 6 rooms. The couple had had 6 children, with 5 surviving: Catherine Marlow, 21, a dressmaker, born in Kennington William Marlow, 20, an accountant clerk for the civil service, born in Battersea Henry Marlow, 18, like his brother Frederick a boy clerk for the civil service, born in Battersea Frederick Marlow, 16, born in Brixton George Marlow, 14, a boy messenger for the civil service, born in Brixton The family is found at the same address 10 years previously. George Marlow, 4, born in Brixton |
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