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Frederick Joseph Chaddock

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F. J. Chaddock
Service no. 9238
Corporal, Gloucestershire Regiment, 1st Battalion
Died around age 33 on 31 October 1918
Remembered at Busigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France

Frederick Joseph Chaddock

Frederick Joseph Chaddock was born in late 1880 in Lambeth, the fourth child and third son of Augustus Chaddock, a stone mason, and Caroline Ellen Chaddock.

The family lived at 12 Esher Street (now Aveline Street) in Kennington, an area defined in 1899 by Charles Booth as ‘fairly comfortable: good ordinary earnings’ and populated by ‘labourers, cabmen, mechanics, police.’ By the time Frederick started attending Vauxhall Street School in 1885, the family had moved to 47 Bonnington Square. In 1891, when Frederick was 10, the Chaddocks had moved a few doors down, to No. 14. There were now seven children in the family (there were eventually eight).

In 1901, Frederick was lodging at Rowton House, a working men’s hostel in Vauxhall accommodating 470 men in ‘cubicles’, while his parents, four siblings including his married sister, her husband and their two young children, along with three people from another household, lived at 10 St Stephens Terrace. Frederick was then listed as having no occupation. It is possible that he was between jobs, unwell or the Chaddock household was simply too full to accommodate him.

Rowton House at Bondway, Vauxhall was the first of a new type of accommodation created by politician and philanthropist Montague William Lowry Corry (Lord Rowton), formerly a private secretary to Benjamin Disraeli. Rowton was previously involved in setting up the Guinness Trust, which aimed to provide low-cost housing for respectable working people in London and Dublin (there is a Guinness Trust estate on Kennington Park Road).

Frederick entered the Lambeth Infirmary on 26 September 1903, for unknown reasons and left nearly five weeks later. The reason for his stay is unknown, only that he was discharged at his own request and to the care of his father.

Postcard showing Frederick’s original burial place, the envelope within which it was sent to his widow, Florence, and a card which probably accompanied a wreath.

At an unknown date Frederick enlisted in the 1st Dragoon Guards. He was later transferred to the Gloucester Regiment. The 1911 census records him as a private with the 2nd Battalion, then stationed at the Verdala Barracks in Malta. At some point before 1911, his parents had separated, with Augustus, by then retired, lodging at 28 Tradescant Road and Caroline living with two daughters a three-minute walk away at 39 Guildford Road.

Frederick served from the beginning of the war, arriving in France in December 1914. In early 1918 he married Florence Victoria Ding. He was killed in action in the final push against the Germans near Busigny (south-east of Cambrai in Nord) less than two weeks before the end of the armistice. His widow Florence later married Frederick’s older brother Percy, and had two children.

Many thanks to the Chaddock descendants for this information. All images are © Stanley Fletcher

Frederick H. S. Caiger

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Frederick Howard Stewart Caiger, from The War Illustrated Album De Luxe: The Story of the Great European War told by camera, pen and pencil (1915)

F. H. S. Caiger
Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, 92nd Bty. 17th Bde.
Killed in action on 11 November 1916, aged 19
CWGC: “Son of Frederick Foord Caiger, M.D., and Madeline Caiger, of South Western Hospital [now Lambeth Hospital, Landor Road], Stockwell”
Remembered at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France

Frederick Howard Stewart Caiger was born on 23 September 1896, the only child of Dr Foord Caiger and his wife Madeline Orr Caiger. He was educated at Winchester and went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1915 where he resided for one term. His father, superintendent at South Western Hospital for 39 years, died on 5 September 1929. His obituary is available at the BMJ Archives. There is at least one branch of the Caiger family still living in Stockwell.

Dr Foord Caiger donated the clock to the Stockwell War Memorial fund.

Caiger was born in 1896 and educated at Winchester (he was in the Officer Training Corps); he later went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1915 where he resided for one term.

He was gazetted in December 1915 (meaning that his Army commission was announced in the Gazette), embarked for France on 23 April the following year and was attached to the 36q Battery. Caiger was admitted to the 87th Field Ambulance with a hydrocele (fluid in the scrotum) and later to the General Hospital suffering from scabies. This highly infectious skin disease was caused by infection by the mange mite. He was discharged on 24 June and posted to the 92th Battery in September.

Caiger was killed by a high explosive shell near Flers on 11 November 1916 and was buried at McCormick’s Post. In 1920 the War Office wrote to his father: “I am to inform you that … it has been found necessary to exhume the bodies buried in certain areas. The body of Second Lieutenant F.H.S. Caiger has therefore been removed from McCormick’s Post Cemetery and re-buried in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval.”

caiger headstoneIn 1922 Dr Foord Caiger donated the four-faced clock to the Stockwell War Memorial fund in memory of his son. “I… shall be very pleased to give it as a tribute to the memory of my only son, who fell in the battle of the Somme at the early age of 19.” he wrote to Samuel Bowller, secretary of the Memorial Committee. “The idea of placing a clock … struck me as such a ‘live’ and appropriate tribute to one who was born and always lived in Stockwell, and who entertained a warm affection for his home.”

University of London Officers Training Corps, Roll of War Service 1914-1919 (published 1921)

Frederick Howard Stewart Caiger
Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery – St. Thomas’s Hospital – Son of Dr. and Mrs. Foord Caiger of Stockwell – killed by a high explosive shell near Flers on 11th November 1916 – buried at McCormick’s Post.

Frederick Howard Stewart Caiger, a medical student at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, was born on 23 September 1896, the only child of Dr. Frederick Foord Caiger and his wife Madeline Orr Caiger. The family lived on the premises of South Western Hospital (now Lambeth Hospital) on Landor Road, where Dr. Caiger was Superintendent for 39 years.

Frank Bowring

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Frank Bowring Photo: Kind permission of Ian R. King

F. Bowring
Service no. 115005
Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, 6th Stat. Hosp. (Antwerp)
Died age 24 on 26 October 1919
Son of Mr and Mrs Henry John Bowring, of 41 Priory Grove, South Lambeth
Buried at Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium

Frank died of pneumonia (information from family members).

National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918

BOWRING, F., Private, R.A.M.C.
Joining in 1916, he was sent overseas in the same year. He was engaged on important duties at the 6th Stationary Hospital whilst in France, but in October 1919 unfortunately died at Antwerp of an illness which he contracted while in the Service. He was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
41, Priory Grove, Lansdowne Road, S.W.8.

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 the Bowring family were living at 41 Priory Grove, London SW8. Henry John Bowring, 49, was a goods porter from Dorchester, Dorset. His wife, Ellen Maria Bowring, 47, was from Kent. Frank Bowring, then 15, was an apprentice engineer, born in Battersea. His sister Elizabeth, 12, was born in South Lambeth, as was his brother Charles Bowring, 7. Elizabeth Haysman, 49, Frank’s aunt (sister of Ellen), a single servant from Kent, was visiting on the night of the census.

William Franklin Bartlett

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William Franklin Bartlett (by kind permission of Chris Barrett)

W. F. Bartlett
Service no. 5710
Regimental Serjeant Major, Bedfordshire Regiment, 1st Battalion
Killed in action on 25 September 1916, aged about 37
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Born in Lambeth; lived in London; enlisted at Kennington
Photo: by kind permission of Chris Barrett

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 William Franklin (given as “Franklyn” on the census return) Bartlett was a Sergeant in the Bedfordshire Regiment at Stanhope Lines, Aldershot, Hampshire. His birthplace is listed as Kennington. He was 32.

Information from the 1891 census

William F. Bartlett’s father, also called William was a wood carver from Cowley, Middlesex. In 1891, aged 45, he lived with his wife Elizabeth, 36 and born in Chelsea, London, four children (of whom William F. was one), and mother-in-law, 79-year-old Plymouth-born Elizabeth Upcott at 41 St Marys Square, Lambeth.

Leslie Frank Bailey

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L. F. Bailey
Midshipman, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. “Bayano”
Died on 11 March 1915, aged 19
Son of Frederick Harvey Bailey and Maria Bailey, of 11 Belle Vue Gardens, Clapham Road, London. Served on H.T. “Huanchaco” on which he continued to serve when it was taken over as an Admiralty Transport in the first months of the war. Native of Brixton, London.
Remembered at Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, at Putney Vale cemetery, and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Midshipman Leslie Frank Bailey (HU 113154) CWGC family information: Son of Frederick Harvey Bailey and Maria Bailey, of 11, Belle Vue Gardens, Clapham Rd., London. Served on H.T. ‘Huanchaco’ on which he continued to serve when it was taken over as an Admiralty Transport in the first months of the war. Native of Brixton, London. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205289913

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Leslie Frank Bailey was 15 and at school. He lived in 5 rooms at 363 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton with his mother, Maria Bailey, 59, born in Croydon and sister, Edith Mary Bailey, 34, a fruiterer’s assistant born in Dalston, London. Frank was one of 5 children. He was born in Lambeth.

Information from the 1901 census

In 1901 Leslie Bailey was 5 and living at 50 Solon Road, Brixton, with his mother, then 49, a florist; sister, Nettie F. Bailey, 26, a florist; sister Edith F. M. Bailey, 24, a commercial clerk. Both sisters were born in Dalston. Visiting on the night of the census were Ellen R. Laurence, 41, married and born in Croydon, and Harold R. Laurence, 6, born in Long Acre, Covent Garden and presumably Ellen’s son.

Frederick Harvey Bailey, cited by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, was mentioned in neither the 1911 nor the 1901 census returns for this household.

George Harry Allen

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George Harry Allen
George Harry Allen is shown with his mother Marcelina Rachel Allen and (probably) brother Sidney. Photo © Jennifer Blaber and Heather Drislane

G. H. Allen
Service no. G/52892
Private, Middlesex Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Born in Wandsworth, enlisted in Camberwell, lived in Lambeth
Killed in action on 25 March 1918, aged 20
“Son of George and Lena [Marcelina] Allen, of 2A, Wheatsheaf Lane, Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Pozières Memorial, Somme, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 the Allen family lived at 18 Riverhall Street, Lambeth. George Henry Allen (senior), 37, was a engineer working in cold stores. He was born at Marchington, Staffordshire. His wife, Marcelina, 35, was from Kirtling, Cambridge. Five sons are registered (one child had died):
George Henry Allen, then 12, born in Clapham
Sidney Alwen Allen, 10, born in Battersea
Edward Albert Allen, 7, born in Battersea
Earnest Cyril Allen, 4, born in Kennington
Frederick James Allen, 5 months, born in Kennington
The family lived in 2 rooms.