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1914

Horace Thomas Pelling

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H. T. Pelling
Service no. CH1/8111
Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, H.M.S. “Bulwark.”
Died on 26 November 1914, aged 18
Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial

Information from Royal Naval Division

Horace Pelling was born on 9 December 1895 in Clapham. He enlisted on 3 July 1913, embarked on H.M.S. “Bulwark” on 22 October 1914, but, as the service record says bluntly, “discharged dead” on 26 November 1914, killed by an internal explosion of his vessel, off Sheerness. His father, Horace John Pelling of 174 Wandsworth Road, received a Star medal issued on 27 July 1919.

The explosion left all of the Bulwark’s officers dead, and out of her complement of 750, only 14 sailors survived; two of these men subsequently died of their injuries in hospital, and almost all of the remaining survivors were seriously injured. There is a good account at www.nhcra-online.org

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Horace Thomas Pelling, 15, was a labourer working in the manufacture of ammonia. He was born in Clapham. His father, Horace John Pelling, 40, as a general gas fitter from Steyning, Sussex; his mother, Hanna Elizabeth, 41, was from Walworth. Horace had one sibling: Albert Edward Pelling, 7, born in Battersea. Three other siblings had died. The family lived in two rooms at 3 Garnies Street (now gone, although there is a Garnies Close off Sumner Road), Camberwell.

Hugh John Kemp

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H. J. Kemp
Service no. L/3287
Lance Corporal, 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, “C” Sqdn.
Born in South Norwood; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds age 22 on 22 October 1914
CWGC: “Son of Frank John and Ellen Kemp, of 40 Lansdowne Gardens, South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at St Andre Communal Cemetery, Nord, France

Brother of Sydney Frank Kemp

Information from the National Archive Pension records

Hugh John Kemp joined the 3rd London Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Army) on 16 February 1909. He gave his age as 17 years and 2 months and stated that he was a clerk at “A. Stedall”. He was 5 feet 5½ inches; his chest measurement was 33 inches, with 3 inches expansion. Kemp’s physical development was “good”, although the officer who completed the form had started to write “poor” but struck it out.

On 10 February 1911 Kemp left the Territorial Army to enlist in the regular army. He joined the Lancers of the Line. By now he had grown to just over 5 feet 6¾ and his chest was 36 inches.

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Frank J. Kemp, 55, a hop factor’s clerk, and his wife Ellen Kemp, 52, headed a large family living at 40 Lansdowne Gardens, where they occupied 11 rooms. Frank and Ellen had had 12 children, of whom 11 survived.
Frank was originally from West Wickham in Kent and Ellen from Pebmarsh in Essex. Their large family consisted of
Sydney F. Kemp, 26, working in “fruit farming”, born in Peckham, who died in 1918
Constance P. Kemp, 24, a shorthand typist, born in New Cross
Thomas C. Kemp, 21, a colonial agent’s representative in the drapery trade, born in New Cross
Winifred M. Kemp, 20, another shorthand typist, born in East Dulwich
Mabel E. Kemp, 16, not working, born in South Norwood
Leslie A. Kemp, 15, a junior clerk, born in South Norwood
Ivy G. Kemp, 14, at school, born in South Norwood
Doris F. Kemp, 12, at school, born in East Dulwich
Stanley E. Kemp, 10, at school, born in Nunhead
In addition, there was a nephew, Frederick H. Kemp, 26, a musician born in Brixton, and a niece, Ivy Nicholls, 16, a dressmaker’s assistant, born in Hamptonshire, Middlesex.
In 1911 Hugh John Kemp, 19, was at the barracks of the 16th Lancers at Woolwich Common – he was a private.
He appears on the 1901 census as an eight-year-old. At that time, the family was living 45 Nunhead Lane, Camberwell. Hugh John is listed as having been born at South Norwood. Sydney (given as Sidney) is described as a stockbroker’s clerk.

William Henry Jackson

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W. H. Jackson
Service no. 9011
Private, Middlesex Regiment, “D” Coy. 4th Battalion
Born in Paddington; lived in Hounslow
Killed in action age 28 on 15 October 1914
CWGC: “Husband of Ethel May Jackson, of 3 Seneca Road, Sandmere Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacouture, France

Arthur Edward Ingram

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A. E. Ingram
Service no. 8804
Private, Worcestershire Regiment, 3rd Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 7 November 1914
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

The National Roll of the Great War gives the following entry for Arthur Edward Ingram:

‘He volunteered and proceeded to France at the outbreak of war, and fought in the Retreat of Mons, and at the Battles of Le Cateau, the Aisne and the Marne. He gave his life for the freedom of England on November 7th, 1914, in the first Battle of Ypres, and was entitled to the Mons Star and the General Service and Victory Medals.’

His address was given as 56 Dalyell Road, Landor Road, SW9. was born in Lambeth and lived in Clapham. 

Arthur Edward was born in 1887 in Lambeth, the middle child of Arthur Ingram, a carman who worked for Clapham & Battersea Borough Council, and Emma. There were two other children. In 1911 Arthur’s parents and their oldest son William lived at 30 Pensbury Street along with a lodger. We have not yet located Arthur Edward on the census for that year.

Albert Young Hutchinson

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A. Y. Hutchinson
Service no. 16206
Private, 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars
Born at Haggerston, London; enlisted at Lambeth; lived at Dalston
Killed in action at age 39 on 24 October 1914
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

In 1911 Albert Young Hutchinson, who was born in Haggerston, east London in 1875, was living in one room at 24 Tasman Road, Stockwell. He was 36, single, and working as a goods receiving clerk. The Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects states that he enlisted on 28 August 1914 and died at Zillebeke.

Albert’s father John W. Hutchinson was a cabinet maker born in Surrey, his mother Mary Ann Young, who died in January 1911, was from Pentonville, north London. Albert had twelve siblings.

In 1911 Albert Young Hutchinson was living in one room at 24 Tasman Road, Stockwell. He was 36, single, and working as a goods receiving clerk. He was born at Haggerston, east London.

Charles F. P. Hillier

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C. F. P. Hillier
Service no. L/7574
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 4th Battalion
Born in Cork, Ireland; enlisted in London
Killed in action on 27 October 1914, aged 35
CWGC: “Son of Daniel and Ellen Hillier, of 9 Hemans Street, Lambeth, London. Served in the South African Campaign.”
Remembered at Le Trouret Memorial, France

Tentative identification

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission database lists a Charles Hillier, whose parents lived at 9 Hemans Street, off Wandsworth Road. However, this man was christened Charles James John in Cork, Ireland, the son of Daniel Hillier, a coal porter from  Stratfield Saye, Berkshire, and Ellen (née Pierce)
from Cork. 

The CWGC database also states that Hillier served in the Boer War. On 24 October 1900 Charles  Hillier, a private with the South West Borderers, was admitted, for unknown reasons, to Brookwood Asylum in Surrey.