McDowall’s widow died soon after he did, leaving 5 children orphans.
Twelve Stockwell men killed on 1 July 1916 - first day of the Battle of the Somme
Selected stories

Albert Henry Shopland

Alfred Edward Hogg

Alfred William Newcombe

Arthur Morley Miller

Bernard Christopher Rance

Cecil Ernest Wilcox

Charles Frederick Parker

Christopher Dartnell

Conrad O’Neill Daunt

Edwin William Collins

Ernest Austin Hoare

Frank Bowring

Frank William Gibbins

Frederick Eales Johnson

Frederick Ernest Joslin

Frederick H. S. Caiger

Frederick James Moulder

Frederick Thomas George Pulsford

George Harry Allen

George John Hatch

George Robert McDowall

Giles Vellacott Daunt
One of two brothers remembered on the Memorial. Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 9 April 1916, aged 19.

Harold Joseph Hill
“Harry got his wishes. Harry got one stripe. He got to fire the machine guns.” Read the intriguing story of an inscription in a book, discovered by chance.

Herbert Charles Nuthall
Killed in action in Belgium on 25 April 1915, age 31. May have witnessed Christmas “truce” of 1914

Hyman Lubel
Killed in action in France on 30 May 1918. Read one of his last letters home.

Joseph Charles Murray
Died in London on 7 May 1920 from illness

Oscar Albert Taylor
Killed in action in Belgium on 27 September 1917, aged about 28. Clerk and turf accountant in civilian life.

Philip Thomas Wilson Grant
Killed in action, age 18, on 15 October 1915

Stanley H. Tremelling
Killed in action on 26 May 1915, aged about 22.

William Evan Turpin
A grocer. Killed in action in Italy in 1918, aged 32.

William Franklin Bartlett
Killed in action in France on 25 September 1916, aged about 37. Amongst the Missing.

William Reginald Guy Pearson
Died in a flying accident on 20 June 1918, aged 21