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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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George Lever

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
G. Lever
(George Lever)
(Lever, George)
Service no G/11157
Private, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 11th Battalion
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Stockwell
Died on 17 September 1916 aged 19
CWGC: "Son of G. and Annie Lever, of 151, Sparrows Herne, Bushey, Herts."
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
George Lever, whose father was also called George, was 14 and at school. He lived with his family at 70 Hubert Grove, Stockwell, where they occupied 5 rooms. George Lever (senior), 56, was a carpenter originally from Lovant, near Salisbury, Wiltshire. Annie Lever, 52, was from Clapham. They had had 10 children, of whom 6 survived. Four of these lived at home:
Fred Lever, 23, a Post Office sorter; Annie Lever, 21, a sewing machinist (children's clothes); George Lever, 14; Alfred Lever, 7. All were born at 70 Hubert Grove.