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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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George Charles Lasham

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
G. C. Lasham
(George Charles Lasham)
(Lasham, George Charles)
Service no 7912
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, 9th Siege Bty.
Born in Brixton; enlisted at Shepherd's Bush; lived in Lambeth, Surrey
Killed in action at age 28 on 26 August 1916
CWGC: "Son of John and Eliza Lasham of London; husband of Louisa Alice Lasham, of 7 Elwell Rd., Clapham, London."
Remembered at Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, France and Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the censuses
In 1911 postman George Lasham, 22, lived at 137 Hartington Road, Stockwell, where his family occupied 6 rooms. His father, John Lasham, 51, was an engineer's pattern maker, born in Lambeth. His mother, Eliza Lasham, 47, was from Lathbury, Buckinghamshire. There were 8 children in 1911 (one child had died), 6 of whom lived at home:
Louise Lasham, 26, a dressmaker, born in Kent
George Lasham, 22, a postman, born in London
Lily Lasham, 18, a needlewoman, born in London
James Lasham, 16, an apprentice engineer, born in London
Ernest Lasham, 10
Frederick Lasham, 5
In 1901 the Lasham family lived at 19 Courland Grove. This census states that John Lasham was deaf. The census includes
Charlotte Lasham, 14, born in Clapham