V. E. Finch Service no. 2829 Rifleman, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), 1st/8th Battalion Killed in action at around age 21 on 25 May 1915 Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, FranceInformation from the censuses In 1911 Victor Edwin Finch was living in 2 rooms at 11 Stockwell Green with his family. Frederick James Finch, 46, […]
Jeffrey Ely
J. Ely Service no. C/276 Private, Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 2nd Battalion Killed in action at around age 25 on 25 September 1915 Remembered at Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Information from the 1911 census and other sources The Ely family lived in 4 rooms at 95 Paradise Road, Stockwell. Charles Ely, 47, […]
Albert Curtis
A. Curtis Service no. SS/8149 Private, Army Service Corps Died on 30 August 1915, aged 35 Remembered at Wandsworth Cemetery, Magdalen Road, Earlsfield, south-west London Albert Curtis left a widow, Forence Maud Curtis, living at Paradise Road, Stockwell, and five young children. Albert married Florence in 1906, and worked as an upholsterer and maker of […]
Henry William Chambers
H. W. Chambers Private no. 7216 Serjeant, Dorsetshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion Died of wounds age 34 on 26 December 1915 Son of Alfred and Eliza Chambers, of 21 Binfield Road, Clapham Road Remembered at Kut War Cemetery, Iraq
Herbert Carey
H. CareyAble Seaman (RFR/CH/B/5028), HMS India Service no. 212125 Killed in action on 8 August 1915, aged 31Remembered at Narvik Old Cemetery, Norway Chris Burge writes: Herbert Carey was born on 27 November 1883 in Holloway, north London, the third of Thomas George and Mary Carey’s five known children. Herbert was still living in Islington […]
William Bunyan
W. BunyanService no. 7848Serjeant, York and Lancaster Regiment, 2nd BattalionKilled in action age 34 on 20 July 1915Son of the late William and Mary Elizabeth Bunyan; husband of Ellen Eliza Bunyan, of 8 Andalus Road, Landor Road, Stockwell, London. Native of Bengeo, Herts.Remembered at New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium and on the war shrine […]
Sidney Alfred Bunker
S. A. Bunker Service no. G/8995 Private, Middlesex Regiment, 11th Battalion Killed in action at about age 21 on 18 October 1915 Remembered at Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Information from the 1911 census The Bunker family lived at 4 Richmond Street, Kennington, Lambeth (the street has now disappeared). Henry Bunker, 51, was a […]
Percy Bigg
P. Bigg Service no. CH/17624 Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, H.M.S. “Formidable” Died age 19 on 1 January 1915 Son of Alfred Bigg, of 12, Thorparch Road, Wandsworth. Born at Lambeth. Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Private Bigg died after H. M. S. “Formidable” was torpedoed by a […]
Frederick Charles Bass
F. C. Bass Service no. R/11906 Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 7th Battalion Killed in action around age 30 on 22 November 1915 Remembered at La Brique Military Cemetery, No 2, Belgium Brother of Percy Bass
Leslie Frank Bailey
L. F. BaileyMidshipman, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. “Bayano”Died on 11 March 1915, aged 19Son of Frederick Harvey Bailey and Maria Bailey, of 11 Belle Vue Gardens, Clapham Road, London. Served on H.T. “Huanchaco” on which he continued to serve when it was taken over as an Admiralty Transport in the first months of the war. […]