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Claude James Edwin Meacock

13 August 2015 by SWM

C. J. E. Meacock
Service no. 200253
Corporal, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1st Battalion
Killed in action on 26 August 1918 at the age of about 20
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at Handel Street; lived in Wandsworth
Remembered at Summit Trench Cemetery, Croisilles, France

Information from the 1901 census

In 1911 Claude Meacock lived at 11a Goldsboro Road, near Wandsworth Road, with his parents and 5 siblings. His father, James Meacock, 39, was a chargeman of cleaners for the London & South West Railway. He was born in Bayswater, west London. His mother, Anna Mary Meacock, 41, was from Croydon. The children were:
Claude Meacock, 12, born in Clapham
Muriel Meacock, 10, born in Clapham
Stewart Meacock, 8, born in Clapham
Irene Meacock, 6, born in Clapham
Beatrice Meacock, 4, born in South London
Edna Meacock, 2, born in South London
There was also a boarder: Benjamin Pay, an 18-year-old single man (no occupation given) from Elstead.In 1901 Claude, then aged 3, was living with his mother, younger sister Muriel, cousin Lucy Bashford, 11, at 27 Ashburnham Grove, Greenwich. His father James is not listed.

Filed Under: M names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 21, France, KIA

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