J. Bunn Service no. R/32876 Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, “C” Coy. 10th Battalion Formerly TR/13/29465, T.R. Battalion Died of wounds age 30 on 10 August 1917 Son of the late Thomas and Jane Harriett Bunn. Remembered at New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium Information from the 1911 census In 1911 John Bunn’s widowed mother, […]
Sidney Alfred Bunker
S. A. Bunker Service no. G/8995 Private, Middlesex Regiment, 11th Battalion Killed in action at about age 21 on 18 October 1915 Remembered at Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Information from the 1911 census The Bunker family lived at 4 Richmond Street, Kennington, Lambeth (the street has now disappeared). Henry Bunker, 51, was a […]
Frederick Harry Bunce
F. H. Bunce Service no 19571 Private, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, “B” Coy. Died age 20 on the 20 October 1916 Son of John and Rosa Bunce, of 7 Victoria Place, Priory Grove, South Lambeth Remembered at Lambeth (Tooting) Cemetery (Screen Wall)
Henry Bull
H. Bull Service no. 393397 Private, Labour Corps, 179th Coy. Died age 33 on 14 July 1918 Son of Frederick and Isabell Bull, of 3, Tregothnan Rd., Clapham, London. Born at St. Pancras, London. Remembered at Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France This is a somewhat tentative identification as there are two men named […]
William Valentine Brown
W. V. BrownService no. G/10746Lance Corporal, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), “B” Coy. 11th BattalionDied age 49 on 15 November 1916Born in South Lambeth, lived in LambethRemembered at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium William Valentine Brown was born in Poplar, east London in 1887, the third child of carman Frederick Charles Brown and […]
John Edward Brown
J. E. BrownPrivate, Middlesex Regiment, 18th BattalionDied 22 June 1916, aged 23Service no. PW/2950Remembered at Gorre British And Indian Cemetery Chris Burge writes: John Edward Brown was born in Peckham in 1893, one of five children and the only son of Mark Edward and Alice (née Spash) Brown, who were married in 1891 at St […]
Arthur Leonard Brown
A. L. Brown Service no. S/26223 Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 8th Battalion Died age 40 on 10 April 1917 Son of the late Tom and Mary Brown; husband of Edith Maude May (formerly Brown), of Ellerslie Road, Clapham Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
George Augustus Broom
G. A. BroomService no. 95439Corporal, Royal Field Artillery, “D” Bty. 63rd Bde.Killed in action on 30 November 1917Remembered at Cambrai Memorial, Louveral, Nord, France George Augustus Broom, born in Lambeth in January 1895, to Frederick and Lucy Ann Broom. He was baptised at St Anne’s, South Lambeth on 31 May at which time his parents […]
G. F. Brooks
Not identified.
Arthur Brooker
A. Brooker Service no. 30907 Private, Devonshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion Died of wounds at about age 18 on 24 April 1918 Remembered at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France Information from the 1911 census rthur Brooker is the youngest person in his household at 36 Rutland Street, South Lambeth. His mother, Annie Brooker, 53, […]