Stockwell War Memorial

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1916

Joseph Charles Smale

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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.

George Shea

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G. Shea
Service no. 304330
Rifleman, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), 1st/5th Battalion
Formerly 3478, 7th Middlesex Regiment
Born in Walthamstow; enlisted in Hornsey; lived in Walthamstow
Killed in action on 6 September 1916
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

A tentative identification. Possibly the brother of Frederick David Shea

Sydney Herbert Scott

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S. H. Scott
Service no. 352378
Private, London Regiment, (5524). “A” Coy. 1st/7th Battalion
Enlisted at Sun Street; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 7 October 1916, aged 21
CWGC: “Son of Herbert Forester Scott, and Emma Eliza Scott, of 24 Edithna Street, Landor Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France

National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918

SCOTT, S.H., Private, 1/7th London Regiment.
Volunteering in July 1915, he was sent overseas in the following year and served with his Battalion in several engagements in the Somme Sector. Reported missing on October 7th, 1916, he was later presumed to have been killed in action on that date and was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
“His life for his Country, his soul to God.”
24, Edithna Street, Landor Road, S.W.9.

Information from the censuses

In 1911 shop assistant Sydney H. Scott, aged 16, lived at 24 Edithna Street, Stockwell with his parents, Herbert F. Scott, 47, electrician originally from Park End, Gloucester, and Emma E. Scott, 44, who was born in Clerkenwell, four of his five siblings (Daisy A. Scott, 25, a machine minder in a tobacco factory; Alfred Scott, 13; Ernest F. Scott, a compositor) and a cousin, Matilda Scott, 30, from Ruardean Hill, Gloucester. It is unclear whether Daisy was born out of wedlock or is the child of Herbert’s previous marriage.
In 1901 Sydney Herbert Scott lived with his family at 17 Holyoake Road, Kennington (now gone). His father, Herbert F. Scott, was a 38-year-old engine stoker at a gasworks, born at Parkend, Gloucestershire; his mother, Emma E. Scott, 35, was born in Clerkenwell. The children in 1901 were
Alice D. Scott, a 16-year-old tobacco packer, born in Southwark
Albert F. Scott, 13, born in Camberwell
Ernest F. Scott, 11, born in Lambeth
Sydney H. Scott, 7, born in Newington
Alfred Scott, 4, born in Newington

Harry (Henry) Saunders

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H. Saunders
Service no. 9254
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 9th Battalion
Born in Shoreditch; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Died on 7 July 1916, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of Henry and Georgina Louisa Saunders, of 26, Viaduct Buildings, Charterhouse St., Holborn, London”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Information from the 1911 census

This identification is somewhat tentative, as the Henry/Harry Saunders detailed here was not living in Stockwell at the time of the census. However, it fits the known information in key points: date and place of birth, names of parents.

A Harry Saunders, then aged 15 and working as a vanboy. He lived with his parents, Henry Saunders, 48, a blacksmith from St Mary’s Redcliffe, Bristol, and Georgina Saunders, 50, from St Luke’s, east London. Harry had three surviving siblings (five having died): May Saunders, 20, a silversmith’s polisher, born in St Mary’s Haggerston, east London; Daisy Saunders, 16, a sewing machinist, born in Walworth; and James Saunders, 13, also born in St Mary’s Haggerston. The family lived at 6 Howley Place, Lambeth, where they had four rooms. The Haggerston area of east London adjoins Shoreditch.

Thomas William Rudge

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T. W. Rudge
Service no. S/6582
Private, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 7th Battalion
Killed in action on 18 November 1916, aged about 28
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Maidstone
Remembered at Stump Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France and at St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Thomas William Rudge, the son of Richard Daniel Rudge and Isabella (née Baker) was baptised at St Paul’s, Clapham on 11 December 1887 when his parents were living at 7 Trollope Street.

Information from the 1911 census

Brewer’s labourer Thomas William Rudge, 23, lived at 8 Eastcote Street, Stockwell (it runs behind the Stockwell YMCA), where his family had four rooms. His widowed father, Daniel Rudge, 59, from Dedham, Essex, was a pipe joiner for the Metropolitan Water Board. There were three siblings: Annie Isabel Rudge, 26, at home; Thomas William Rudge; Arthur Ernest Rudge, 19, a railway porter; Percy Rudge, 16, a bookstall boy for Willings Ltd. Annie was born in Clapham, Thomas and Arthur in Battersea; and Percy in Stockwell.