S. Morgan
Service no. S/15651
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion
Born in Highgate; enlisted in Newbury, Berkshire; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 11 November 1916
Remembered at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France
Jarlath Vincent Mooney
J. V. Mooney
Service no. H/14352
Private, 8th (King’s Royal Irish) Hussars
Born in Southend, Essex; enlisted in London; lived in London
Killed in action on 27 March 1917 at age 23
CWGC: “Only son of Jarlath Augustine Mooney, of 32 King’s Avenue, Clapham Park, London, a clerk.”
Remembered at Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Information from the 1911 census
The 1911 census shows Jarlath Vincent Mooney as living at 105 Franciscan Road, Tooting, where his family had 3 rooms. Jarlath’s mother Christiana Mooney, 39, was born in Shoreditch, east London. His sister, Kathleen Frances Mooney, 19, was a shorthand clerk typist for a manufacturer of gears, and was born in Dover, Kent. Jarlath was born in Southend. He was employed as a clerk in “mercantile offices”.
The family, including Jarlath’s father, Jarlath A. Mooney, are on the 1901 census at 2, Princess Buildings, Plymouth . His father was a 35-year-old travelling debt collector and a native of Ireland.
Thomas Henry Mizen
T. H. Mizen
Service no. 202018
Able Seaman, Royal Navy, H.M.S. “Natal”
Died 30 December 1915 aged around 32
Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
The Natal was a Duke of Edinburgh class armoured cruiser, built by Vickers Maxim of Barrow and launched on 30 September 1905. She was sunk by an internal explosion near Cromarty on 30 December 1915.
Information from Wikipedia:
On the 30th December 1915 Natal was lying in the Cromarty Firth with her squadron, under the command of Captain Eric Back RN. Shortly after 3.20pm, and without warning, a series of violent explosions tore through the ship. She capsized five minutes later. The most probable explanation was that a fire had broken out, possibly due to faulty cordite, that ignited a magazine. The exact number of casualties is still debated, and ranges from 390, up to 421. Some were killed in the immediate explosions, others drowned as the ship capsized, or succumbed to the freezing water of the Cromarty Firth. Most of the bodies which were recovered from the sea were interred in Rosskeen Churchyard, Invergordon. A small number of casualties were interred in the Gaelic Chapel graveyard in Cromarty.
The picture shows her upturned hull, visible at low water.
There is an interesting thread about the explosion at www.black-isle.info
Thomas Henry Mizen was born on 25 January 1883 in Brixton to Albert Duncan Mizen and Emma Amelia Turner. Thomas is listed on the 1891 census as visiting with his father, a carman, and younger sister at 38 Ingleton Street, Stockwell. In 1904, at St Paul’s, Lorrimore Square, Walworth (Southwark) Thomas married his first cousin Edith Miriam Payne.
The couple had six daughters (five surviving):
Doris Hetty, born 1905
Elsie, born 1906
Edith Miriam, born 1908
Alice Frances, born 1909
Helen Elizabeth, born 1912
Grace Henrietta, born 1912, died 1913
At the time of Thomas Mizen’s death his family address was recorded as 7 Moat Place, Stockwell Road. Edith died in 1929.
James Mitchell
Tentative identification. James Mitchell is listed on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA.
Frank Sidney Minter
F. S. Minter
Service no. 60899
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 22nd Battalion. Formerly 4542, East Surrey Regiment
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Clapham; lived in Upper Tooting
Killed in action 10 March 1917 aged about 35
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information from the 1911 census
Frank Sidney Minter was a 29-year-old commercial traveller selling herbs and seeds. He was born in South Lambeth, and was married to Ada Mary Minter, also 29, from Stockwell. They lived in three rooms at 49 Jeffreys Road, Stockwell, and had one child, Lilian Ada Minter, 5 months, born in South Lambeth. Mary Goldsmith, 63, Ada Mary’s mother, a laundress born in the City, lived with them.
Frederick Edward Milnes
F. E. Milnes
Service no. 917
Private, 12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers
Born in Kennington; enlisted in London; lived in Lambeth
Died on 24 June 1918 aged 28
CWGC: “Son of Frederick and Annie Louisa Milnes, of 3 Albert Mansions, South Lambeth Road, London.”
Remembered at Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany
In 1922–23 it was decided that the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who had died all over Germany should be brought together into four permanent cemeteries. Berlin South-Western was one of those chosen and in 1924-25, graves were brought into the cemetery from more than 140 burial grounds in eastern Germany.
Brother of William Alexander Milnes.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Frederick Milnes, 22 and single, was serving as a private with the 12 Royal Lancers in Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa.
Information from the 1901 census
In 1901 the Milnes family were living at 30 Smeaton Road, Wandsworth. Frederick Milnes senior was probably registered elsewhere on the night of the census, as he does not appear on the listing. Annie Milnes, 37, was born in Easton Square. Her children at the time were:
Frederick Milnes, 12, born in Kennington
William Milnes, 8, born in New Cross
Florrie Milnes, 6, born in Camberwell
John Milnes, 1, born in Southfields