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Joseph Charles Smale

18 August 2015 by SWM

J. C. Smale
Service no. G/2820
Private, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), “C” Coy., 8th Batallion
Died of wounds age 24 on 22 January 1916
CWGC: “Son of Martha Tucker (formerly Smale), and the late William James Smale, of 3 Kenchester Street, South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France

Brother of William Herbert Smale

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Joseph Smale, 19, was a laundry foreman. He lived with his mother Martha Tucker, 48, stepfather George Tucker, 50, and siblings at 3 Kenchester Street, South Lambeth (roughly, behind the Tate Library). George Tucker, from Clapham, worked in a laundry. He had been married to Martha for six years – they had a son, Frederick Tucker, 6. Four of Martha’s other children lived in the household: William Smale, 25, a soapmaker; Lilian Smale, 23, a packer in a laundry; Thomas Smale, 21, a manager in a cigarette factory; Joseph; Edward Smale, 15, a electrician’s mate; Sidney Smale, 10. All the Smale children were born in Lambeth. In 1901 the Smales lived at 7 Wilkinson Street. Joseph’s father William James Smale, 49, gave his ocupation as “warehouseman – baskets”. Ten years previously the Smales were living at 18 Walberswick Street, South Lambeth Road.

Filed Under: S names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1916, age 24, Brothers, DOW, France

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