Stockwell War Memorial

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George William Wakelin

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G. W. Wakelin
Service no. G/11762
Private, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 10th Battalion
Born in Clerkenwell; enlisted in Chelsea; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 27 July 1916, aged 29
CWGC: “Son of George Fordham Wakelin and Alice Ann Wakelin, of Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at London Rifle Brigade Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium

Information from the censuses

George William Wakelin, 24, lived at 40 Sidney Road, Stockwell, where he shared seven rooms with his parents George Wakelin, 70, a rent collector from Hanover Street, London, and Alice Ann Wakelin (née Barnes), 51, from Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, and two siblings: James Wakelin, 22, a commercial clerk for Army & Navy Stores and Catherine Wakelin, 21, a telephone operator.

John Frederick Wake

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J. F. Wake
Service no. 75115
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 10th Battalion; formerly 42273, 99th Training Reserve Battalion
Born in Battersea; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in South Lambeth
Died of wounds on 18 May 1918, aged 19
Remembered at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France

Information from the 1911 census

John Frederick Wake was a 12-year-old schoolboy in 1911. He lived with his family at 25 Bognor Street, Battersea (this street has now disappeared but was once in a tight knot of streets off Thessaly Road). John’s father James Stowe Wake, 43, was a painter’s labourer born in Westminster; his mother Elizabeth Wake (née James), 39, was born in Lambeth. John had five siblings (two had died): Sydney Albert Wake, 14, a messenger boy; James Stowe Wake, 9; Ivy Kathleen Wake, 6; Daisy Isabell Wake, 6; George Edward Wake, 1.

William Childs Wadmore

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C. W. Wadmore
Service no. R/31892
Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 10th Battalion
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Camberwell
Killed in action on 9 January 1917, aged about 21
Remembered at Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery, Somme, France

Identification

I believe there is an error on the memorial. I can find no trace of a C. W. Wadmore, but there is evidence that a W. C. Wadmore lived in Stockwell at the appropriate time. In addition, the Soldiers Died in the Great War database includes a William Childs Wadmore, born in Stockwell. Further evidence that a Wadmore family lived in Stockwell includes a parish register recording the baptism in 1892 of Elizabeth Wadmore, daughter of William and Eliza Wadmore of 7 Bromsgrove Road, at St Andrew’s Church, Stockwell.