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Charles Thomas Markham

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C. T. Markham
Service no. 232431
Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 2nd Battalion, also Royal Fusiliers, attd. 7th Battalion
Born in Wandsworth; enlisted in Clapham; lived in Lambeth
Killed in action on 6 April 1918, aged 21
Remembered at Pozieres Memorial, France

Charles Thomas Markham (courtesy of Pat Norris)

Information from the 1911 census

This identification is somewhat tentative. We do not have a year of birth for Charles Thomas Markham.
In 1911 a Charles Markham, born in Wandsworth, was living at 75a Ellerslie Road, Clapham. He was 16 and working as a grocer’s shop assistant. The household included his father, William Markham, 46, a carpenter and joiner from Framingham, Suffolk, and his mother, Mary Ann Markham, 45, from Holburn, London. They had had 8 children, 6 surviving. Apart from Charles there were 3 children living at home: Jessie Markham, 12, born in Stockwell; Sidney Markham, 7, born in Clapham; and Stanley Markham, 4, born in Stockwell.

Albert Marjeram

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A. Marjeram
Service no. 232420
Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 2nd/2nd Battalion
Born in Brixton; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Lambeth
Killed in action on 20 December 1917 at age 21
CWGC: “Son of William Marjeram, of 2 Kibworth Street, Dorset Road, Clapham, London, and the late Ruth Marjeram.”
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Albert Marjoram, then 15, worked as a van guard for the London & South West Railway. He lived with his family in 3 rooms at 2 Kibworth Street, Dorset Road. His father, William Marjoram, 55, was a night watchman born in Lambeth. His mother, Ruth Marjoram, 54, was from Manchester. The couple had had 15 children, of whom 7 had not survived. Three lived at home:
Elizabeth Marjoram, 21, an ironer, born in South Lambeth
James Marjoram, 19, born in South Lambeth, no occupation given
Albert Marjoram, 15, a van guard, born in South Lambeth
The census lists the family as “Marjoram”.
Albert Marjeram’s older brother William Marjeram, 36, a coal man, lived at 8 Alfred Court, South Lambeth, with his wife, Florence, and his four children.

Google trivia: There was another, rather more famous, Albert Marjeram, who was hanged in 1930 at Pentonville for the murder of Edith May Parker.

Arthur Stanley Manning

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A. S. Manning
Service no. 60740
Wheeler, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
Born in Lambeth
Killed in action in Egypt on 23 December 1915, aged about 25
Remembered at Kut War Cemetery, to the north of Baghdad, Iraq
CWGC: The entry for A. S. Manning gives 25 December 1915 as date of death and states that he was of Indian nationality, a Gunner with the Madras Artillery Volunteers, 2nd (Madras) Group Garrison Artillery (The Duke’s Own).

Arthur Stanley Manning was a career soldier. He enlisted in the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery on 9 December 1909 at 88 New Kent Road, having previously worked as a printer’s engineer and served an apprenticeship. At the time of enlistment Manning was 19, 5 feet 7½ inches tall and weighed just over 9¾ stone. His chest measurement was 36 inches. His eyes were blue and his hair was brown.

Manning’s war career was short: he was killed in action on 25 December 1915 at Kut-al-Amarah in the Persian Gulf. He had served a total of 6 years and 15 days.

However, his work as a battery wheeler was solid. At the time he renewed his commitment to the army on 11 December 1914, he had gained two good conduct badges and his character was described as “very good.” After Manning died his sister, Mrs. May Adelaide Parsons, who lived  at 9 Meadow Road, received a registered letter from the Records office at Dover enclosing a letter from the Viceroy of India: “I am […] to forward the enclosed letter from his Excellency the Viceroy […] of transmission to the next-of-kin of the late No. 60740 Bombardier Manning RGA with the Volunteer Battery in Mesopotamia, who was killed in action on 25 December 1915.” Unfortunately, a copy of the Viceroy’s letter is not in the file.

On 1 March 1916 the War Office requested a copy of Manning’s Record of Service “showing the Indian period” and later Lieutenant E. F. Durand, on behalf of the adjutant General of India, sent a letter of condolence to May.

Manning was one of at least six children of James L. B. Manning, a machine operator born in Holborn, and Mary Manning, born in Lambeth.

Information from the 1901 census

Arthur Manning was 10 and living with his family at 9 Meadow Road. His father, James L. B. Manning, 46, was a “machine ruler” (machine operator) born in Holborn. His mother, Mary A. Manning, 45, was born in Lambeth. Their children at the time were:
Sidney J. Manning, 22, was a printer
Louise Elizabeth Manning, 20, a seamstress
Annie R. Manning, 18, was a pager for a bookbinder
George B. Manning, 13
Arthur S. Manning, 10,
May A. Manning, 4
All the children apart from the youngest two were born in Bermondsey.

Roderick Emile Leadbetter MacKenzie

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R. E. L. MacKenzie
Service no. 14/42565
Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles, 14th Battalion, formerly R/35035, King’s Royal Rifles
Born in Wimbledon; enlisted in London; lived in Lambeth
Killed in action on 2 September 1917 at age 19
CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs James L. MacKenzie of 10 Atherfold Road, Stockwell, London. Born at Wimbledon, London.”
Remembered at Hermies British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

Brother of Osmond MacKenzie.

Osmond McKenzie

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O. J. L. Mackenzie
Service no. 1662
Rifleman, London Regiment (City of London Rifles), 1st/6th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Killed in action at age 19 on 15 September 1916
CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs James L. MacKenzie, of 10 Atherfold Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France

Brother of Roderick MacKenzie

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Osmond MacKenzie, 13, lived with his large family in 5 rooms at 10 Atherfold Road. James Leadbetter MacKenzie, 41, from Edinburgh, was a journalist. His wife, Kate MacKenzie, 41, was from Inverness. They  had 9 surviving children (1 died) – 8 sons and a daughter:
Edymion MacKenzie, 16, a woodcarving student, born in Edinburgh
Julian MacKenzie, 14, an architect’s apprentice, born in Edinburgh
Osmond MacKenzie, 13, born in Lambeth
Roderick MacKenzie, 12, born in Wimbledon
Athol MacKenzie, 9, born in Lambeth
Alasdhair MacKenzie, 7, born in Lambeth
Donald MacKenzie, 5, born in Lambeth
Quentin MacKenzie, 2, born in Lambeth
Natalie Syliva MacKenzie, 1

In 1901 the MacKenzie family lived at 10 Hemberton Road (adjacent to Atherfold Road). Maggie Grant, 19, Kate’s sister, lived with them. On the night of the census, John Carl Lyte, 39, an actor, was staying in the house as a visitor.