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William Charles Viney

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W. C. Viney
Service no. 179460
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, No 1 Depot
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Camberwell; lived in Lambeth
Died on 21 February 1918, aged 31
CWGC: “Husband of Florence Emily Viney, of 3 Portland Place South, Clapham Road, London.”
Remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Tooting, London SW17

Information from parish records and 1911 census

William Charles Viney, 25, and Florence Emily Sheaff, 27, married at All Saints Church, Newington, on 27 August 1911. William described himself as a stock keeper of confectionary, and his father, William Viney, as a general labourer. The 1911 census shows William Viney as boarding at 7 Freemantle Street, Newington (the address he gives on his marriage record), where he lived with engine fitter Alfred Webster and his family. Viney’s occupation here is given as “store keeper”.

Thomas Vincent

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T. Vincent
Service no. 10262
Lance Corporal, Bedfordshire Regiment, 1st Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Hertford; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 22 October 1914, aged 19
CWGC: “Son of Maria Vincent, of 106 Railton Road, Herne Hill, London, and the late Thomas Vincent.”
Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, France

Information from the 1911 census

Thomas Vincent, 15 in 1911, was a messenger for the telegraph office. He lived with his parents and two brothers at 15 Springfield Place, Stockwell (Springfield Place has now disappeared – it was in the area near Lansdowne Way and Wandsworth Road). Thomas Vincent (senior), was 70 and worked as a messenger for the borough council. He was born in Islington. His wife Maria Vincent, 48, was from Hanwell, west London. They had three surviving children (of four): Thomas and two younger brothers, Harry Vincent, 13, and Fred Vincent, 7.

Albert Henry Vickers

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A. H. Vickers
Service no.10022
Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 28 January 1917, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of Thomas and Sarah Vickers, of Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France

Information from the censuses

Albert Henry Vickers, 15 in 1911, was one of 10 surviving children (of 11) of Thomas George Vickers, 52, a stoker for Lambeth Workhouse, from Poplar, east London, and Sarah Vickers, 51, from Stockwell. Thomas and Sarah lived at 26 Moat Place, a four-roomed tenement, with three of their children: George Vickers, 25, a milk porter, William Vickers, 13, and Georgina Vickers, 11. The Vickers family had lived at that address since at least 1901. Meanwhile, Albert was an apprentice bootmaker living with the Goward family at 39 Elm Road, New Malden.

Vickers’s name is included in Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914–1918. 

George Edwards Verney

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G. E. Verney
Service no. G/13935
Private, Royal Sussex Regiment, 13th Battalion
Born in Brixton; enlisted in Lambeth
Killed in action on 26 September 1917, aged 33
CWGC: “Son of George Verney, of 53 Dalberg Road, Brixton, London.”
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

Information from the censuses

Brixton-born George Edward Verney was a baker. Aged 26, he was living with his parents, George Verney, 53, a cab driver from WInslow, Buckinghamshire, and Annie Verney (née Edwards, 60, from Riverhead, Kent, and sister Rose Verney, 22, a general domestic servant born in Clapham, at 20 Gilbey Road, Tooting, where the family had five rooms. George and Annie had had six children, with five surviving. In 1901 the Verney family lived at 4a Park Place, Clapham.