E. T. H. Jackson
Service no. S/26110
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 9th Battalion
Killed in action on 3 May 1917, aged 34.
CWGC: “Son of Edward and Annie Jackson, of 35 Chertsey Street, Church Lane, Tooting; husband of Emily Jackson, of 37 Romney Buildings, Millbank, Westminster, London.”
Remembered at Arras Memorial, France
Arthur Ireland
A. Ireland
Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles, 15th Battalion
formerly 6822, London Regiment
Born in Peckham; enlisted in Wandsworth; lived in Brixton
Killed in action on 22 November 1917
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Arthur Ireland was born in Peckham and lived in Brixton. He enlisted in Wandsworth. His death was ‘presumed’ meaning that he was one of the 700,000 whose remains were never recovered. His name is included in Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914–1918.
Arthur Edward Ingram
A. E. Ingram
Service no. 8804
Private, Worcestershire Regiment, 3rd Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 7 November 1914
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium
The National Roll of the Great War gives the following entry for Arthur Edward Ingram:
‘He volunteered and proceeded to France at the outbreak of war, and fought in the Retreat of Mons, and at the Battles of Le Cateau, the Aisne and the Marne. He gave his life for the freedom of England on November 7th, 1914, in the first Battle of Ypres, and was entitled to the Mons Star and the General Service and Victory Medals.’
His address was given as 56 Dalyell Road, Landor Road, SW9. was born in Lambeth and lived in Clapham.
Arthur Edward was born in 1887 in Lambeth, the middle child of Arthur Ingram, a carman who worked for Clapham & Battersea Borough Council, and Emma. There were two other children. In 1911 Arthur’s parents and their oldest son William lived at 30 Pensbury Street along with a lodger. We have not yet located Arthur Edward on the census for that year.
John S. Hymes
J. S. Hymes
Service no. 394311
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), 1st/9th Battalion
Enlisted in London; lived in Brixton
Died of wounds on 29 May 1917
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, France
In 1911 John Simpson Hymes, 29, lived at 16 Westgate Road, Dartford. He was a sales manager, born in Liverpool. His wife, Ruby Clara Hymes, 24, was born in Lambeth, and their son, John Edward Hymes, 10 months, was born in Clapham; two further children followed. The couple married at St Mark’s, Kennington in 1908.
Hymes’s widow married James F. Moore in 1919.
James George Hutchison
Currently being researched
Albert Young Hutchinson
A. Y. Hutchinson
Service no. 16206
Private, 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars
Born at Haggerston, London; enlisted at Lambeth; lived at Dalston
Killed in action at age 39 on 24 October 1914
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium
In 1911 Albert Young Hutchinson, who was born in Haggerston, east London in 1875, was living in one room at 24 Tasman Road, Stockwell. He was 36, single, and working as a goods receiving clerk. The Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects states that he enlisted on 28 August 1914 and died at Zillebeke.
Albert’s father John W. Hutchinson was a cabinet maker born in Surrey, his mother Mary Ann Young, who died in January 1911, was from Pentonville, north London. Albert had twelve siblings.
In 1911 Albert Young Hutchinson was living in one room at 24 Tasman Road, Stockwell. He was 36, single, and working as a goods receiving clerk. He was born at Haggerston, east London.