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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 Pearcey

This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
G. Pearcey
(George Pearcey)
(Pearcey, George)
Service no 202274
Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1st Battalion
Enlisted at Handel Street
Died on 19 January 1919 (theatre of war is given as "home"), aged 34
CWGC: "Son of Mrs Ada Pearcey, of 104 Stockwell Road, Stockwell, London."
Remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 George's mother Ada, 54, a charwoman, lived in two rooms at 2 Tachbrook Street, Pimlico with two of her daughters: Roseline, 14, a dressmaker's apprentice, and Dorothy Pearcey, 12. Both were born in Pimlico. Ada had six children, five of whom survived. George Pearcey does not appear to be on the census. In 1901 the family, including George's father William Pearcey, lived at at 36 Aylesford Street, near Hanover Square. George, then 14, was working as an errand boy.