This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 G. C. Toze (George Charles Toze) (Toze, George Charles) Service no 9451 Serjeant, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), 1st Battalion Born in Kennington Died on 24 May 1915, aged 27 CWGC: "Son of John and Nellie Toze, of 11 Stockwell Green, Stockwell, London." Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census In 1911 George Charles Toze, aged 21, was registered as a Lance Corporal in the King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), at the Clarence Barracks, at Spithead Forts, Portsmouth, Hampshire. He was born in Kennington. Meanwhile, at 11 Stockwell Green, his widowed mother, Nellie Toze, 43, a housekeeper from Bampton, Devon, shared her two-roomed home with two sons, Cyril Stanley Toze, 19, an unemployed labourer, and Frank Albert Edgar Toze, 16, an errand boy, and a boarder: Arthur Miles, 43, a married brewer's labourer from Watford. Hertfordshire. Nellie had had 10 children; only four survived. George's father John Toze is on the 1901 census. |
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