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Wandsworth (Streatham) Cemetery

Stanley Franklin Whiting

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S. F. Whiting
Service no. F/13871
Aircraftman 1st Class, Royal Naval Air Service, H.M.S. President II
Died of illness on 27 January 1918, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of Benjamin F. and Augusta Whiting, of 85 Lark Hall Lane, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Wandsworth (Streatham) Cemetery, Garratt Lane, London SW17

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Clapham-born Stanley Franklin Whiting was 13 and living in a six-roomed house at 85 Lark Hall Lane, Clapham, where his family had lived since at least 1901. His father, Benjamin Franklin Whiting, 40, was a corn and coal merchant, born in Battersea; his mother, Augusta Whiting (née Burkitt), was from Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Stanley had a brother, Eric Whiting, 8, born in Clapham. An older brother had died some time after the 1901 census. Clara Banham, a 26-year-old domestic servant from Kentish Town, lived in.

Alfred Bernard Gude

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A. B. Gude
Service no. 1556
Private, London Regiment, 24th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Kennington; lived in Stockwell
Died aged about 19 on 16 June 1915
Remembered at Wandsworth (Streatham) Cemetery, London SW16

Information from the censuses

In 1911 the Gude family lived at 26 Willington Road, Stockwell, where they occupied 4 rooms.Thomas George Gude, 39, was an engine driver for the London and South West Railway. He was born in Battersea. Alice Milly Gude, 47, was born in Clapham. Alfred Bernard Gude, their only child, was a messenger lad for the London and South West Railway.

Ten years previously, in 1901, the Gude family lived at 17 Union Street, Clapham. Two locomotive engine firemen, Walter H. Dizzard, a 26-year-old single man born in Guildford, Surrey, and William E. Burnard, 20, single and from Southsea, Hampshire, lodged with the family.