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Robert Atkins

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R. Atkins
Service no S/23067
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 8th Battalion
Died of wounds on 16 September 1917, aged about 30
Remembered at Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920
Printer Robert Atkins married Emily Louisa Umpelby in June 1913 at All Saints Church, Lambeth. The couple lived at 14 Horace Road and their sons Robert Thomas and Thomas John Atkins were born in 1913 and 1915.

In December 1915 Robert joined the Reserve at Lambeth, and in June the following year he joined the regular Army. He was described as 29 years, 5 feet 8¼ inches, 38 inches around the chest (with 3 inches expansion), and 10 stone.

Atkins’ file records just one misdemeanour: In November 1916 “when on active service [he was] absent without leave from tatto, 9.30pm until 8.30pm,” for which he forfeited 3 days pay.

When Atkins died of gunshot wounds to the neck, legs and left arm at the 2nd Australian Casualty station he had served 1 year and 280 days. In January 1918 his effects were sent to his widow: “2 playing cards, 1 pipe, 1 knife, 1 cig box, 1 pr scissors, 2 Rifle Brigade numerals”.

In May 1919 Emily Louisa, 29, married Henry Edward Powell, 30 . She lived 14 Luscombe Street, Lambeth.
Information from the 1911 census
Robert Atkins and his two brothers were printers’ labourers in 1911, living with their sister and widowed mother, Mary Jane Atkins, 53, at 43 Neptune Street, Lambeth (near Spring Gardens). Mary Jane was from Cullum, Devon.
Robert Atkins, 24
Charles Atkins, 22
Thomas Atkins, 20
Elizabeth Atkins, 26, a domestic worker
All were born in “Wandworth Road.”
Mary Jane signed the form with her mark.

Frederick Alfred Ansell

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F. A. Ansell
Service no. S/16820
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own), 1st Battalion
Born in Stockwell, lived in Balham
Killed in action on 21 August 1916, aged 24
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 the Ansell family was living at 39 Willington Road, Stockwell. Frederick William Ansell, 51, was a printer’s compositor, born in Westminster; Clara Ansell, 48, was also born in Westminster. Of her 7 children born alive, 6 survived. All were born in Stockwell.
Frederick Alfred Ansell, 19, was an apprentice compositor
Amy Ansell, 18, was a dressmaker
Sidney Edwin Ansell, 16, umbrella maker
Florence Victoria Ansell, 14
Arthur Charles Ansell, 10
Harold Irvin Ansell, 2

Information from the 1901 census

In 1901 the Ansell family lived at 30 Arlesford Road.

James Albert Andrews

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J. A. Andrews
Service no 6703
Private, 1st (Royal) Dragoons
Formerly 6703, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys)
Killed in action on 12 November 1914, aged 22
Son of James and Rose Rebecca Andrews, of 60 Wilcox Road, South Lambeth, London.
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Claude Cecil Andrews

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C. C. Andrews
Service no G/11433
Private, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 7th Battalion
Killed in action 21 October 1917, aged 23
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium and at St John’s Church, Clapham Road, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census

This is a somewhat tentative identification – the best fit of the data available. The 1911 census includes an entry for the Andrews family at 30 Haselrigge Road, Clapham. Charles Thomas Andrews, 63, was a schoolkeeper from Shaftesbury, Dorset. His wife Emma Andrews, 59, was from Rendlesham, Suffolk. They lived in 6 rooms with their 21-year-old daughter Gracie, who was a school cleaner, born in Chelsea. The couple had had 13 children, 6 of whom had died.

On the night of the census, their son, Claude Andrews, 17, a clerk for a builder’s merchant, was visiting, along with a daughter, Chelsea-born Maud Price, a widow at 23 and working as a schoolkeeper, and her two-year-old son George Price, who was born in Brixton.

Haselrigge School closed in 2001.

Peter Anderson

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P. D. Anderson
Service no L/7853
Private, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers
Died on 13 February 1919, aged 28
CWGC” “Son of Thomas and Christina Anderson, of 24 Viceroy Road, South Lambeth, London. Born at Glasgow.”
Remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Tooting, London SW17 and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Peter Anderson’s family was living at 2 Crimsworth Road, off Clapham Road. His father, Berwickshire-born Thomas Anderson, 50, was motor car engineer. His mother, Christina Anderson, 39, was born in Ross-shire. Peter’s siblings, all born in Lambeth and registered on the census, were:
Christina Anderson, born 1893, whose occupation is given as “filling and labelling scent bottles”
Henrietta Anderson, born 1896, domestic service
George Anderson, born 1901
Jessie Anderson, born 1906
Grace Anderson, born 1911 (2 months old)
Thomas Anderson and Peter Anderson are not on the census at this address. The 1911 census shows that Christina had given birth to 11 live children, 7 of whom survived.
Information from the 1901 census
In 1901, Peter Anderson was a 10-year-old living at “26 Cavendish Arms, Public House, Viceroy Road”. Thomas Henderson, 24, a Scottish brass moulder boarded with the family, and the Murray family were visiting on the night of the census: Edward A. Murray, 44, a locomotive engineer born in Kent; his wife Mary Murray, 45, born in Scotland; their son Henry Murray, 8, also born in Scotland.