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Henry Bull

9 August 2015 by SWM

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 H. Bull with possible connections to the area in the Soldiers Died in the Great War database: the Henry Bull above and Harry Bull who died 21 September 1917. However, the latter is recorded as living in “Clapham Common, NE”.

Filed Under: B names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 33, Died, France

William Valentine Brown

9 August 2015 by SWM

W. V. Brown
Service no. G/10746
Lance Corporal, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), “B” Coy. 11th Battalion
Died age 49 on 15 November 1916
Born in South Lambeth, lived in Lambeth
Remembered 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 Isabella Sarah Elizabeth (née Jackson). In the 1891 census the family of seven lived at 36 Radnor Terrace, off South Lambeth Road. Frederick Brown was working as a carman and William was a 17-year-old groom.

He married Annie Chinnery on 14 January 1894 at St Andrew’s, Landor Road. The couple gave 5 Southesk Street as their address.

Filed Under: B names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1916, age 49, Belgium, Died

John Edward Brown

9 August 2015 by SWM

J. E. Brown
Private, Middlesex Regiment, 18th Battalion
Died 22 June 1916, aged 23
Service no. PW/2950
Remembered 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 Agnes, Southwark. The family later moved to Lambeth.

In the 1911 census,  John was living with his mother and three of his younger sisters.  Then 18, John worked as a warehouseman for a dealer in glass and china.  Five people shared four rooms at 68c Hackford Road. The family had moved to 20 Nealdon Street by 1914. 

John volunteered on 25 May 1915, enlisting in London. Just three sheets of his original service papers have survived; they describe him as a labourer who was 5ft 6in tall and weighed 124lbs. John’s vision without glasses was only good enough for a ‘non shooting unit’. He found himself posted to one of the Middlesex Regiment’s three pioneer battalions. By July 1915, the 18th Middlesex had moved to the Clipstone Camp near Mansfield, home to thousands of soldiers in training. The final months before departing for France were spent on Salisbury Plain. Private Brown landed at La Havre on 15 November 1915.

By June 1916, John’s battalion had suffered fewer than 20 casualties. In the third week of the month they were working on the construction of dug-outs and shelters, with one company ‘mining under no-mans lands’.   On the 21st at 2am the enemy blew several large mines destroying part of the front line where C and D companies were working. Total casualties were: seven killed (including John), one officer and 20 men wounded and one missing.  

John’s parents remained at 26 Hargywne Street until at least 1930.  

Filed Under: B names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1916, age 23, Chris Burge, France

Arthur Leonard Brown

9 August 2015 by SWM

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

Filed Under: B names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1917, age 40, Died, France

George Augustus Broom

9 August 2015 by SWM

G. A. Broom
Service no. 95439
Corporal, Royal Field Artillery, “D” Bty. 63rd Bde.
Killed in action on 30 November 1917
Remembered 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 gave their address as 15 Bonnington Square, Kennington. In 1911 George lived with his parents, four of his eight siblings and a boarder in six rooms at 105 Old South Lambeth Road. He was engaged in motor work. His father was a coke porter at the gasworks.

Filed Under: B names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1917, KIA

G. F. Brooks

9 August 2015 by SWM

Not identified.

Filed Under: B names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: No information

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