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Jeffrey Ely

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J. Ely
Service no. C/276
Private, Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 2nd Battalion
Killed in action at around age 25 on 25 September 1915
Remembered at Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census and other sources

The Ely family lived in 4 rooms at 95 Paradise Road, Stockwell. Charles Ely, 47, a sewer flusher born in Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, and his wife, Alice, 50, who was born in Lambeth had 9 children (one had died). All were born in Lambeth:
William Ely, 27, a gold blocker
John Ely, 23, a carman
Jeffrey Ely, 19, labourer
Alice Ely, 17
Robert Ely, 15
Samuel Ely, 13
Arthur Ely, 11
Ada Ely, 9
The family were at the same address in 1901.

In 22 December 1912 Jeffrey Ely married Rose Leeves at All Saints, South Lambeth.

Frederick Thomas Elson

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F. T. Elson
Service no. 62188
Lance Corporal, Royal Fusiliers, 4th Battalion
Died of wounds, age 32 on 11 May 1917
Son of Thomas and Louisa Elson, of London. Husband of Laurel Elson, of 5, Grove Rd., Brixton, London.
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London 0DA.

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Frederick Thomas Elson, 25, was living with his family in 6 rooms at 74 Victoria Avenue, Plashet Lane, East Ham. His mother, Louisa, a 56-year-old widow born in Stepney, had 6 children surviving (of 7). Five of these were on the census.
Frederick Thomas Elson, born in Leyton, Essex
Alice Rosina Elson 23, a draper’s clerk, born in Leyton, Essex
Henry Charles Elson, 22, an invoice clerk, born in Leyton, Essex
Herbert James Elson, 20, a motor mechanic, born in Leytonstone, Essex
Florence May Elson, 18, a shorthand typist, born in Leytonstone, Essex

On 21 November 1915 Frederick married Laurel James at St Michel’s Church, Stockwell. Laurel lived at 5 Grove Road.

Cecil Herbert Elphick

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C. Elphick

Information from the 1911 census

This is a tentative identification. There is no Cecil Herbert Elphick on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database nor in the Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1918. None of the men listed as “C. Elphick” in these databases would seem to fit the man named at Stockwell. The same applies to “H. Elphick“. However, there are two men of the correct age range living in Lambeth who may, or may not, be those named on the memorial.

These brothers, both born in Hadlow, Kent, were living at 14 Kellett Road, Brixton in 1911.

Cecil Herbert Elphick, 30, was a single municipal servant. He worked for the Comptroller’s Department of London County Council.

His brother, Henry James Elphick, 34, was a civil servant working for the Secretariat of the G.P.O. (General Post Office).

A. A. Ellis

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A. A. Ellis
Service no. 201091
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, “C” By. 76th Bde.
Died age 22 on 27 July 1917
Son of John and Emily Ellis, of Clapham, London; husband of Annie May Ellis, of 25 Haines Street, Battersea, London.
Remembered at Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium

John Reginald Charles Edwards

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J. R. C. Edwards
Service no, 701405
Lance Corporal, London Regiment, 1st/23rd Battalion
Killed in action, age 21 on 7 June 1917
Son of John and Louisa S. Edwards, of 37A Crimsworth Road, Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, London.
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

Information from the 1911 census

The Edwards family lived in 4 rooms at 37a Crimsworth Road, SW8. John Edwards, 48, was a coke porter at the gas works. He was born at Kington Magna, Dorset. Louisa Edwards, 43, was from Dorchester, Dorset. The couple had 9 children (2 had died), all born in Lambeth:
Daisy Edwards, 18, a domestic servant
John Edwards, 15, a page boy in private houses
Lily Edwards, 14
May Edwards, 12
Charles Edwards, 10
Henry Edwards, 9
Violet Edwards, 7
Frank Edwards, 4
Frederick Edwards, 2