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.