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Harry George Mead

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H. G. Mead
Service no. 37888
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 37th Battalion, transferred to 63909, Labour Corps
Died on 4 November 1920 at about age 42
CWGC: “Husband of Ada Mead, of 40, Wilcox Rd., South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Tooting, London SW17

British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920

In 1919, when the pension board assessed Harry George Mead, they found him 100 per cent disabled. His symptoms included shortness of breath, expectoration, anaemia and haemoptysis (coughing up blood). His general condition was poor. Mead had contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, and this was attributed to his war service. He had been posted for duty in July 1916 and had served 2 years and 217 days in France.

It was clear that Mead would be unable to return to work (he had been a painter). There was a note in the file to investigate the status of their adopted son, Robert, then 12. The pension board awarded him 27s 6d a week for six months, and 40s for 64 weeks thereafter, with 10s for his wife, Ada.

Information from the 1911 census

Harry George Mead, 33, and born in Lambeth, was a house painter. In 1911 he was married and living with his wife, Ada Mead, 34, who was from Brislington, Bristol, in 2 rooms at 12 Paradise Road, Stockwell. They had been married for 5 years and had no children.

Claude James Edwin Meacock

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C. J. E. Meacock
Service no. 200253
Corporal, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1st Battalion
Killed in action on 26 August 1918 at the age of about 20
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at Handel Street; lived in Wandsworth
Remembered at Summit Trench Cemetery, Croisilles, France

Information from the 1901 census

In 1911 Claude Meacock lived at 11a Goldsboro Road, near Wandsworth Road, with his parents and 5 siblings. His father, James Meacock, 39, was a chargeman of cleaners for the London & South West Railway. He was born in Bayswater, west London. His mother, Anna Mary Meacock, 41, was from Croydon. The children were:
Claude Meacock, 12, born in Clapham
Muriel Meacock, 10, born in Clapham
Stewart Meacock, 8, born in Clapham
Irene Meacock, 6, born in Clapham
Beatrice Meacock, 4, born in South London
Edna Meacock, 2, born in South London
There was also a boarder: Benjamin Pay, an 18-year-old single man (no occupation given) from Elstead.In 1901 Claude, then aged 3, was living with his mother, younger sister Muriel, cousin Lucy Bashford, 11, at 27 Ashburnham Grove, Greenwich. His father James is not listed.

James William McEvoy

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J. W. McEvoy
Service no. 93025
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 378th Bty. 169th Bde.
Died of wounds on 28 April 1918 at age 21
CWGC: “Son of James and Elizabeth McEvoy, of 35 Sutherland Street, Pimlico, London. Native of South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France

Information from the 1901 Census

In 1901 James McEvoy was 4 and living with his parents at 38 Lansdowne Road, a boarding house. His parents, James McEvoy, 30, from Pimlico, and Elizabeth McEvoy, 30, from Bedford, had six boarders (their first names are not listed):
Smith, 53, a widowed dress-maker, from Hampshire
Farris, 26, a cheesemonger, born in Guildford
Major, 40, a commercial traveller, born in Clapham
Geverding, 32, a musician, born in Camberwell
O’Connell, 25, a bank clerk, born in Southsea
Mortlock, 46, a governess, born in Hackney
I cannot find James William McEvoy on the 1911 census.

George Robert McDowall

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G. R. McDowall
Service no, 59064
Serjeant, Royal Engineers, 69th Field Coy
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 10 May 1916, aged about 43
CWGC: “Brother of Mr H. McDowall, of 33 Nealdon Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery, British Extension, France

On 4 October 1900 George Robert McDowall, 27, the son of a labourer, married Emma Cecil Giffin, 21, at St. Andrew’s Church. He was a serving serjeant with the 2nd Dragoons.  In 1911 Emma is found living at 33 Nealdon Street, Stockwell, with her three children Flora May, 6 (born in Norwich), Robert Andrew, 4 (born in Glasgow), and George Leslie, 1 (born in Lambeth).

Trevor Moore writes:

G. R. McDowall was my great grandfather on my mother’s side. The story of his death and the effects on his young family is tragic, yet I’m sure not uncommon to his generation.

GRM was killed on the front at Grenay, a mining village close to Lens. He left a wife, Emma, and five children: Flora, Robert, Dora, George Leslie (my grandfather) and Roy. Very soon after GRM’s death, Emma also died at the very young age of 37, leaving the children orphans. My grandfather and his younger brother were sent to a local orphanage as a result.

Photos by kind permission of © Trevor Moore.

Daniel McConlough

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D. McConlough
Service no. 305225,
Corporal, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Died on 7 August 1916
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

This is a tentative identification. There is only one D. McConlough in the CWGC database. He can be found on the census in Liverpool and I know of no association with Stockwell.

George Henry Mayes

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G. H. Mayes
Service no. Deal/1834(S)
Private, Royal Marines, R.M. Div. Train, R.N. Div.
Died on 12 June 1915 at age 35
Died of wounds in 2nd (RN) Field Ambulance (shrapnel wound right side, same date)
CWGC: “Husband of Elizabeth M. Mayes, of 10 Stafford Road, Brixton, London.”
Remembered at Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey