• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Stockwell War Memorial

Stockwell War Memorial

Friends of Stockwell War Memorial & Gardens

  • Home
  • Order the book (free download)
  • About
  • The men of Stockwell
  • History of the Memorial
  • Centenary Exhibition
  • Contact
  • Newsletter
  • Friends Group

Alfred Ernest Stainer

18 August 2015 by SWM

A. E. Stainer
Service no. 17371
Private, East Surrey Regiment, 9th Battalion
Lived in Walworth; enlisted in Clapham; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds on 13 August 1916, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs F. Stainer, of 1 Paradise Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Carnoy Military Cemetery, France

Alfred Ernest Brooks Stainer (sometimes Stainer-Brooks), born in Walworth, southeast London on 1 May 1896, was the  sixth of nine children of Frederick Thomas Stainer, a fishmonger from Charminster, Dorset and Angelina (née Furzard), from Melcombe Regis, Dorset. He was baptised at St Matthew’s, Newington on 3 June, when his parents gave their address as 30 Weymouth Buildings, which were in Sayer Street, Southwark.

On the night of the 1911 census the Stainer family lived in five rooms at 87 Mann Street, Walworth. The household consisted of Frank and Angelina, aged 48 and 49, and eight of their children. Alfred was employed as an office boy for a printer. A family of four had another two rooms. 

Later, the Stainers moved to 1 Paradise Road, Stockwell.

Filed Under: S names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1916, age 20, DOW, France

Footer

The Men of Stockwell

  • All the men
  • Died on 1 July 1916
  • Brothers
  • Listed on St Mark’s War Memorial
  • Listed on St Andrew’s War Memorial
  • Listed on St John’s War Memorial

SEARCH THE SITE

Other local memorials

  • St Mark’s, Kennington
  • St Andrew’s, Landor Road
  • St Michael’s Church shrine
  • Wynne Road sorting office
  • Brixton Town Hall
  • St John’s Church
  • Michael Church, Myatts Fields
  • St Mark’s War Shrine
  • St Anne’s War Crucifix
  • Clapham War Memorials

About this site

This site lists 574 men named on Stockwell War Memorial in London SW9.

If you would like to contribute information or images to the site, please email stockwellmemorialfriends@gmail.com

Copyright © 2025 · Genesis Sample On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

  • All the men
  • Died on 1 July 1916
  • Brothers
  • Listed on St Mark’s War Memorial
  • Listed on St Andrew’s War Memorial
  • Listed on St John’s War Memorial