G. F. Osborne
Service no. 48694
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own), formerly 35391, Royal Engineers (Postal Section).  Posted to London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds on 10 July 1918, aged 23
CWGC: “Son of Lydia Osborne, of 110 Dorset Road, Clapham Road, London.”
Remembered at Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, France

Information from the censuses

George Frederick Osborne, 15 and working as a telegraph messenger for the General Post Office (GPO), is found on the 1911 census living at 7 Bolney Street, South Lambeth, where his family had five rooms. His father, George Lewis Osborne, 36, was a plasterer’s labourer; he was born in Lambeth, as was his wife, Lydia Osborne, 35. The couple had five children, all born in Lambeth: George Frederick, 15; Alfred James, 12, at school and working as a milk boy; Thomas John Osborne, 11, William Frederick, 3; Florence Maud, 6 months. Joseph Alfred Wyld, 35, a carman in the newspaper trade, boarded with the family. In 1901 George and his family lived at 41 Vine Cottages, Bond Street.