A. G. Wellings
Service no. 10167
Private, Coldstream Guards, 3rd Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Wandsworth
Killed in action on 2 August 1917, aged about 23
Remembered at Artillery Wood Cemetery, Belgium
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 an Alfred George Wellings was working as a page at the Junior Athenaeum Club at 116 Piccadilly, London. He was 17 and born in Vauxhall. This identification is tentative, as currently I managed only to match the name and approximate place of birth (Vauxhall being the next neighbourhood to Stockwell, and sitting within Lambeth). Thirty-five servants lived at the club. On the night of the census, there were 10 residents.
From Dickens’s Dictionary of London, published 1879, by Charles Dickens, Jr.: The Junior Athenaeum Club “occupies the house once inhabited by the late Duke of Newcastle, and built at extraordinary cost by his father-in-law, the late Mr. Adrian Hope. Members of both Houses of Parliament, members of the universities, fellows of the learned and scientific Societies, and gentlemen connected with literature, science, and art are eligible for election. The members elect by ballot. “No ballot shall be valid unless at least twenty members actually vote. One black ball shall annul ten votes, a tie shall exclude.” Entrance fee, £31 10s.; annual subscription, £10 10s.”
