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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.

Sydney G. Smith

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S. G. Smith
Service no. 470355
Company Serjeant Major, London Regiment (The Rangers), 12th Battalion
Killed in action on 26 September 1917, aged 37
CWGC: “Son of George and Frances Smith, of Stockwell; husband of Mabel Annie Smith, of 54, Mordaunt Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

British Army WWI Pension Records, 1914-1920

There are only 3 pages on Smith in the archive. They cover his 5-year period of service with the Territorials, from 26 May 1909 to 25 May 1914, when he left the London Regiment (The Rangers) as Lance Corporal.
The records state that

  • Smith was 29 and 5 months when he joined
  • He was married and living at 13 Effort Road, Highbury
  • He was a clerk with “Ellis & Co”
  • He was 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a chest of 34½ inches, which he could expand by 2 inches

Charles Edward Small

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C. E. Small
Service no. 960469
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, “A” Bty. 302nd Bde.
Enlisted in Fulham; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 31 October 1917, aged 21
CWGC: “Son of Charles Edward and Laura Louisa Small, of 61 Mordaunt Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Jerusalem Memorial and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920

Charles Edward Small presented himself at the Fulham recruiting office early in the war – on 16 September 1914. We do not know what kind of occupation he left behind, as this was not recorded in the service records. However, it was a settled kind of life.

His family had lived in the same house for at least 13 years, and although his father had died, his mother, Laura, earned a living through dress-making. They were doing well enough to order headed paper, on which Laura wrote on 24 April 1918 to the War Office enquiring about the “watch and silver mizpah ring” which should have been among her son’s effects. “Will you kindly make enquiries for me,” she wrote, “as I should value them much.” The mizpah ring, popular during the 19th and early 20th centuries, was given and worn when close relatives or lovers were about to be separated, often by catastrophic events such as war.

Small was 19 and a good 5 feet 7half inches tall when he enlisted. His vision and physical development was noted as “very good.”

Information from the censuses

Lambeth-born Charles Edward Small, 14 in 1911, lived with his widowed mother, Laura Louisa Small, 46, a dressmaker from Eastman, Southampton, and his siblings, Winifred Small, 21, a business clerk; Kathleen Small, 18, a student teacher; and Leslie Allan Small, 9, in 4 rooms at 61 Mordaunt Street.  The family at been at this address since at least 1901 Charles’s father, also called Charles, was on the 1901 census described as a 37-year-old coach painter, born in Reigate, The girls were born in Reigate, but Charles (junior) and Leslie was born in Stockwell.

George Frederick William Sach

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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.

Thomas William Rudge

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T. W. Rudge
Service no. S/6582
Private, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 7th Battalion
Killed in action on 18 November 1916, aged about 28
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Maidstone
Remembered at Stump Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France and at St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Thomas William Rudge, the son of Richard Daniel Rudge and Isabella (née Baker) was baptised at St Paul’s, Clapham on 11 December 1887 when his parents were living at 7 Trollope Street.

Information from the 1911 census

Brewer’s labourer Thomas William Rudge, 23, lived at 8 Eastcote Street, Stockwell (it runs behind the Stockwell YMCA), where his family had four rooms. His widowed father, Daniel Rudge, 59, from Dedham, Essex, was a pipe joiner for the Metropolitan Water Board. There were three siblings: Annie Isabel Rudge, 26, at home; Thomas William Rudge; Arthur Ernest Rudge, 19, a railway porter; Percy Rudge, 16, a bookstall boy for Willings Ltd. Annie was born in Clapham, Thomas and Arthur in Battersea; and Percy in Stockwell.

Robert Harry Roberts

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R. H. Roberts
Service no. G/22229
Private, Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st/4th Battalion
Died on 7 August 1918, aged about 19
Remembered at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France, and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census

Robert Harry Roberts was a 12-year-old schoolboy in 1911. He lived at 21 Cottage Grove, Stockwell with his parents and two sisters. Roberts’s father, Lambeth-born Robert Alfred Roberts, 43, was a clothworker; his mother Emma Eliza (née Farr), 38, was from Islington, north London. Norah Aileen Roberts, 16, was a “tailoress, born in Edgware, north London; Emma Winifred Sarah Roberts, 3, was born in Brixton. Three boarders shared the six-room accommodation: Beresford Worthington, 60, a single journalist from Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland; Frederick Collinds, 28, a single sugar confectioner from Andover, Hampshire; and Samuel Lloyd, 24, a single baker from Brixton.