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Arthur Ernest Homewood

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Arthur Ernest Homewood, who worked as a footman before he joined the army. Photo courtesy of Paul Wood.
Arthur Ernest Homewood in uniform, from an album created by Arthur’s niece. He served as a batman. Photo courtesy of Jo Kercher.
The inscription on Arthur Homewood’s gravestone reads ‘A loving brother, a devoted son. He loved and was loved by everyone.’ Photo courtesy of Paul Wood.

A. E. Homewood
Service no. 59585
Private, Northamptonshire Regiment, “B” Coy. 6th Battalion
Enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Lambeth
Killed in action, age 20, on 4 November 1918
CWGC: “Son of Eliza Ann Homewood, of South Lambeth, London, and the late John Homewood.”

Arthur was killed only seven days before the Armistice.

Remembered at Preux-au-Bois Communal Cemetery, Nord, FranceInformation from the 1911 censusArthur Ernest Homewood, 13, who was at school and also working as a grocer’s errand boy, lived with his widowed mother at 18 Radnor Terrace, South Lambeth (now disappeared). The family occupied 4 rooms. Eliza Ann Homewood, 53, earned her living as a charwoman in private houses. She was born in Bermondsey. Her sons were:
John Edward Homewood, 22, a warehouseman in a government office
Thomas George Homewood, 16, a messenger for the “Army & Navy Auxiliary and Co-operative Stores”
Arthur Ernest Homewood, 13
All were born in South Lambeth.

Paul Wood writes:

Arthur was my great-uncle (his brother William was my grandfather, who survived the war from 1914 through to 1918). When William went to the enlisting office he told them he was a footman and the officer in charge said he was taking him with him to France. He went the following day without basic training and served as a batman to a Captain Bird. William was from South Bermondsey also.

Alfred Harold Holman

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A. H. Holman
Service no. 34678
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 182nd Bde.
Enlisted in Chelsea; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds aged about 23 on 11 May 1916
Remembered at Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos, France

Brother of John Orlando Holman, whose CWGC entry states that the family lived at 45 Jeffreys Road, Stockwell.

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Alfred Harold Holman, an 18-year-old warehouse porter, lived in 4 rooms at 45 Riverhall Street, South Lambeth with his mother Sarah Jane McQuillin, 49, her husband Stephen McQuillin, 49, and 4 of his 6 brothers. Sarah Jane was a domestic servant and was born in Yeovil, Somerset. Stephen was a fitter’s labourer, born in Walworth. Sarah’s children were:
Percy Holman, 24, a general labourer, born in South Lambeth (as were all the children)
Ernest Holman, 21, a gardener
Alfred Holman 18, a warehouse porter
John [Orlando] Holman, 15, a junior clerk
Bertie Holman, 13

In 1901 the widowed Sarah J. Holman lived at 10, Thorne Street, Lambeth with her 7 sons.

Alfred Edward Hogg

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Alfred Edward Hogg. With kind permission of Adrian Hogg.

A. E. Hogg
Service no. S/12345
Private, Seaforth Highlanders, 1st Battalion
Killed in action age 29 on 5 November 1917
CWGC: “Son of Edward Hogg, of 56 Sidney Road, Stockwell, London, and the late Jessie Mary Hogg (nee Skepelhorn).”
Remembered at Basra Memorial, Iraq

Information from the 1911 census

Edward (aka Alfred Edward) Hogg, 55, a mercantile clerk born in Bermondsey, and his wife Jessie Mary Hogg, 48, born in Blackfriars, lived at 56 Sidney Road, Stockwell with 8 of their 9 children (Alfred Edward Hogg was missing from the household).  Two children had died by 1911.)
Ethel Josephine Hogg, 27, a shirt machinist, born in Stockwell
Edith hogg, 26, a shirt machinist, born in Stockwell
WInifred Jessie Hogg, 24, a clerk, born in Stockwell
Alice Mary Hogg, 21, a typist, born in Stockwell
Ernest Leonard Hogg, 16, a “boy clerk”, born in Southwark
Elsie Kathleen Hogg, 13, born in Southwark
Amy Lillian Hogg, 11, born in Southwark
Eric Douglas Hogg, 6, born in Southwark

Information from Roots Web

Jessie Skepelhorn was born in 1863 at at 127 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, Surrey, married Alfred Edward Hogg, a wharf clerk, born in Bermondsey, at St Saviour, Southwark, and died in Lambeth in 1915, aged 52. Alfred and Jessie had eight children, listed in the 1901 census at which point the family was living at 81 St George Road, Southwark:
Ethel Josephine Hogg, born 1884 at Clapham. In the 1901 census she is described as a shirt-maker.
Edith Nellie Hogg, born 1885 at Clapham, also described as a shirt-maker.
Winifred Jessie Hogg, born 1886 at Clapham
Alfred Hogg, born in 1888 at Clapham
Alice Mary Hogg, born in 1889 at Clapham
Ernest Cecil, born 1892 in Southwark
Elsie Kathleen Hogg, born 1897 in Southwark
Amy Lilian Hogg, born 1899 at Southwark
In 1901 Cecil H. Skepelhorn, Jessie’s brother lodged with the family. He was a 19-year-old general labourer, born in 1881, married in 1907, which was also the year of his death. The Skepelhorn family originated in Overton, Wiltshire.

In 1891 the family was living at 17 Market Place in Stockwell.

Bertie Hoft

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B. C. Hoft
Service no. 10050
Private, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 10th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Battersea
Died of wounds at around age 19 on 7 May 1916
Remembered at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), France

Information from the 1911 census

Bertie Hoft and his brother Hermann Hoft (who served in the war and survived) were sons of Hermann Hoft. Hermann Senior, 47, worked as a syrup maker for a mineral water factor. He was born in Germany. His wife, Christiana Hoft, 48, was born in St George’s, London. They had 6 children:
Christiana M. Hoft, 21
Hermann L. Hoft, 19, a van guard in the mineral water factory
James F. Hoft, 17, a builder’s labourer
George C. Hoft, 15, a machine cleaner in a tobacco factory
Bertie C. Hoft, 13, at school and working as a newsboy
Lilian M. Hoft, 10
All were born in Lambeth.
Two boarders lived with the family: Elizjah Gathercole, 22, a single baker from Brandon, Norfolk, and William E. Wright, 32, a married butcher from Newbury, Berkshire.

Information from the 1901 census

In 1901 the family lived at 65 Bond Street, Lambeth.

Joseph Edward Hobbs

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J. E. Hobbs
Service no. 970079
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, Reinf. Base Depot
Born in London; enlisted in London
Died age 20 on 19 September 1917
CWGC: “Son of Joseph Edward and Edith Hobbs, of 62, Hargwyne Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Joseph Edward Hobbs, 39, a fitter’s mate for an electrical light company, and his wife Edith Hobbs, 35, lived in 3 rooms at 62 Hargwyne Street, with their three sons: Fred Hobbs, 16, a messenger boy; Edward Hobbs (the J. E. Hobbs listed on the Stockwell memorial), 13; and Henry Hobbs, 11. The parents, Joseph and Edith, were both born in Paddington, Fred in St Pancras and the younger two brothers in North Kensington.