A. V. Scutt
Service no. G/15812
Lance Corporal, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1st Battalion
Born, enlisted and lived in Lambeth
Killed in action on 21 March 1918
Remembered at Arras Memorial, France
(Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Soldiers Died in the Great War databases has Scutt as Victor Albert rather than Albert Victor)
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Sydney Herbert Scott
S. H. Scott
Service no. 352378
Private, London Regiment, (5524). “A” Coy. 1st/7th Battalion
Enlisted at Sun Street; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 7 October 1916, aged 21
CWGC: “Son of Herbert Forester Scott, and Emma Eliza Scott, of 24 Edithna Street, Landor Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France
National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918
SCOTT, S.H., Private, 1/7th London Regiment.
Volunteering in July 1915, he was sent overseas in the following year and served with his Battalion in several engagements in the Somme Sector. Reported missing on October 7th, 1916, he was later presumed to have been killed in action on that date and was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
“His life for his Country, his soul to God.”
24, Edithna Street, Landor Road, S.W.9.
Information from the censuses
In 1911 shop assistant Sydney H. Scott, aged 16, lived at 24 Edithna Street, Stockwell with his parents, Herbert F. Scott, 47, electrician originally from Park End, Gloucester, and Emma E. Scott, 44, who was born in Clerkenwell, four of his five siblings (Daisy A. Scott, 25, a machine minder in a tobacco factory; Alfred Scott, 13; Ernest F. Scott, a compositor) and a cousin, Matilda Scott, 30, from Ruardean Hill, Gloucester. It is unclear whether Daisy was born out of wedlock or is the child of Herbert’s previous marriage.
In 1901 Sydney Herbert Scott lived with his family at 17 Holyoake Road, Kennington (now gone). His father, Herbert F. Scott, was a 38-year-old engine stoker at a gasworks, born at Parkend, Gloucestershire; his mother, Emma E. Scott, 35, was born in Clerkenwell. The children in 1901 were
Alice D. Scott, a 16-year-old tobacco packer, born in Southwark
Albert F. Scott, 13, born in Camberwell
Ernest F. Scott, 11, born in Lambeth
Sydney H. Scott, 7, born in Newington
Alfred Scott, 4, born in Newington
Harry (Henry) Saunders
H. Saunders
Service no. 9254
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 9th Battalion
Born in Shoreditch; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Died on 7 July 1916, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of Henry and Georgina Louisa Saunders, of 26, Viaduct Buildings, Charterhouse St., Holborn, London”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information from the 1911 census
This identification is somewhat tentative, as the Henry/Harry Saunders detailed here was not living in Stockwell at the time of the census. However, it fits the known information in key points: date and place of birth, names of parents.
A Harry Saunders, then aged 15 and working as a vanboy. He lived with his parents, Henry Saunders, 48, a blacksmith from St Mary’s Redcliffe, Bristol, and Georgina Saunders, 50, from St Luke’s, east London. Harry had three surviving siblings (five having died): May Saunders, 20, a silversmith’s polisher, born in St Mary’s Haggerston, east London; Daisy Saunders, 16, a sewing machinist, born in Walworth; and James Saunders, 13, also born in St Mary’s Haggerston. The family lived at 6 Howley Place, Lambeth, where they had four rooms. The Haggerston area of east London adjoins Shoreditch.
Albert George Victor Sales
A. G. V. Sales
Service no. 242156
Private, Leicestershire Regiment, “A” Coy. 2nd/5th Battalion
Killed in action on 26 September 1917, aged 33
Born in Battersea; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Clapham.
CWGC: “Son of Mrs T. Sales, of 36 Peardon Street, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920
On 18 April 1918 Albert Sales was “regarded for official purposes as having died on or around 26/9/17”. He had gone missing during the chaos of battle. He had been at the front for three months.
Sales, a sheet metal worker, presented himself at the recruiting office on 24 February 1916. He gave his address as 82 Larkhall Lane, Clapham. He was measured (5 feet 6¼ inches, with a 35-inch chest expandable by 3 inches), over 10 stone. The Army observed that he had a squint in his right eye.
Like many other conscripts, he went into the Army Reserve, waiting his turn to be mobilised. There he stayed until 4 October 1916. Then he was trained and packed off to France in February 1917. However, Sales had repeated trouble with a septic foot. He was injured on 28 April, but did not receive treatment until 9 May. It continued to give him trouble throughout May. Then in late June he was sent to the Front, and went missing.
Information from the 1911 census
Albert George Victor Sales’s mother, Theresa Sales, a 56-year-old railway waiting room attendant from Doncaster, was living at 172 Stewart’s Road with her youngest child, Archibald Oliver Sales, 15, and married daughter Elizabeth Gertrude Riley, 29, and her two children.
George Frederick William Sach
G. F. W. Sach
Service no. 470989
Rifleman, London Regiment (The Rangers), 12th Battalion
Born in Ealing; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 21 September 1918, aged 21
CWGC: “Son of George and Emily E. Sach, of 28 Edithna Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Villers Hill British Cemetery, Villers-Guislain, France and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9
National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918
SACH, G.F.W., L/Cpl., 12th London Regt., (Rangers).
He volunteered in February 1915, and after completing his training served at home until 1917, when he was drafted to France. Whilst overseas, he fought on the Somme, at Ypres, Arras, Albert, St. Quentin, St Eloi and Lille. He also served in the Retreat of 1918, and on September 21st of that year was unfortunately killed in the Allied Advance. He was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
“Whilst he remember, the sacrifice was not in vain.”
28, Edithna Street, Stockwell, S.W.9.
Information from the censuses
George Frederick William Sach was 13 in 1911. Born in Ealing, he lived at 28 Edithna Street with his parents milkman George Sach, 39, from Ealing, and Emily Elizabeth Sach (nee Betts), 45, from Litcham, Norfolk, and brother James Walter Sach, 9, born in Clapham. Three aunts (sisters of his mother) from Norfolk lived with the family, Louisa Harriett Betts, 46, Alice Ann Betts, 42, a lady’s maid, and Florence Betts, 40, as well as Ivy Alice Betts, 9, born in Clapham.
In 1901 the Sachs were living in 36 Wirtemburg Street, Clapham, and a decade earlier they were in Twyford Abbey, Ealing.