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Hubert Tindal Sutton

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H. T. Sutton
Service no. 9005
Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion
Born in Battersea; enlisted in London
Died on 21 November 1914, aged 30
CWGC: “Son of Stanley and Mary Sutton, of 5 Gauden Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium

Information from the censuses

I have not managed to track down Hubert Tindal Sutton in the 1911 census, but his parents, Stanley Sutton, 49, a clerk from Tenterden, Kent, and Mary Sutton, 47, from London, are found at Tendring, Essex. The census shows that Stanley and Mary claimed they had had five children, two of whom had died. As they named three daughters on the census (Mary G. Sutton, 20, Ethel D. M. Sutton, 16, and Anita P. Sutton, 9, one wonders whether there was some kind of rift with Hubert. The family had a live-in servant, Alice Woods, 17, from Gillingham, Kent.

In 1901 Stanley Sutton was a 39-year-old pawn broker from Tenderden, Kent, living at “41 & 43 Battersea Park Road” according to the 1901 census. His wife, Mary Sutton, was born in Kennington. Hubert’s occupation is not given (he was then 17). He was born in New Brompton, Kent. His sisters, Mary Sutton (10) and Esther Sutton (6), were born in Battersea. Mary Hallard, 20, from Sheerness, Kent, was the family’s live-in domestic servant, and Samuel Perry, 29, described as an “assistant pawn broker” and who was born in Kilburn, London, resided with the family. It is likely that the Suttons lived over the shop.

George Steven Strange

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G. S. Strange
Service no. 39606
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Lambeth
Killed in action on 11 May 1917
Remembered at Wancourt British Cemetery, France

George Steven (sometimes Stephen) Strange was born in 1893 in Stockwell and enlisted at Lambeth. In 1911 he lived at 33 Cobbett Street, off Dorset Road, with his stepfather William Barrett, 45, and mother Sarah Barrett, 47, from Stepney, east London, and 13-year-old sister Alice. George, then 17, worked as a kitchen porter in a hotel. George’s father had been a brewer’s labourer.

Joseph Strand

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J. Strand
Service no. 6/9792
Corporal, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 9th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London
Died of wounds on 18 August 1917, aged about 33
Remembered at Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium

Information from the censuses

Barman Joseph Strand, 28, was unemployed in 1911. He lived with his widowed mother, Elizabeth Sarah Strand, 58, and brother, Hebert Stanley Strand, 25, a taxi motor mechanic at 57 Hartington Road, Stockwell. The family shared their two-roomed home with Catherine Shery, a single 26-year-old cook. All members of the household were born in Lambeth. Elizabeth had five children (one had died). In 1901 the Strand family lived at 69 Dorset Road. Ten years previously, in 1891, the family lived at 2 Alfred Place, in South Lambeth. Henry Strand, Joseph’s father, was a painter.

Walter Henry Stone

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W. H. Stone
Service no. R/34903
Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 8th Battalion, formerly S/23009, Rifle Brigade, TR/13/8075, 20th Training Reserve Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Stockwell
Died of wounds on 2 May 1917, aged 19
CWGC: “Son of Henry and A. Stone, of 37 Hargwyne Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Information from the censuses

Lambeth-born Walter Henry Stone, 13 in 1911, lived at 13 Hargwyne Street, Stockwell, with his parents, Henry Stone, 40, a carter from Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, and Elizabeth Alice Stone, 44, from Tylers Causeway, Hertfordshire. They had three children (two had died): apart from Walter, there was Ivy Stone, 7, and Florence Alice Stone, 5. All three were born in Lambeth. In 1901 the Stone family lived at 42 Mordaunt Street.