A. E. Ball
Service no. 10231
Serjeant, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, 1st Battalion
Killed in action on 23 July 1916, aged 23
Son of Charles and Sarah Ball, of 58 Tasman Road, Stockwell, London.
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Arthur Edward Ball, then 17, was working as a compositor’s apprentice and living at 58 Tasman Road, Stockwell with his father, Charles Ball, 47, a stone mason born in Isleworth, and his father’s second wife, Sarah Ball, 42, born in Chelsworth, Suffolk. Other members of the household were
William Ball, 21, a compositor, born in Kennington
Fredrick Ball, 16, a bag carrier for a gas company, born in Kennington
Frank Ball, 3, born in Stockwell
