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1916

Arthur Edward Perry

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A. E. Perry
Service no. 8367
Private, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, 7th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 14 July 1916, aged 28
CWGC: “Son of William James and Selina Perry, of 45 Edithna Street, Landor Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Arthur Edward Perry’s parents and brother were living in four rooms at 45 Edithna Street, Stockwell. (I could not find Arthur Edward Perry on this census; the 1901 census shows him working, aged 14, as an errand boy.) William James Perry, 57, was a coach painter born in Lambeth; Selina Perry, 62, was from Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire. They had had six children; three survived: Arthur Edward; William John Perry, 36, a poulterer born in Lambeth; one other (name unknown).

William George Percy

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W. G. Percy
Service no. 3950
Lance Corporal, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), 18th Battalion
Killed in action on 22 May 1916, aged 34
CWGC: “Son of William Percy, of 11 Grantham Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France

Information from the censuses

In 1911 William George Percy, 29, worked as an optician’s assistant. Born in Kennington, he lived with his wife, Nellie Ethel, 24 and from Leeds, in five rooms at 52 Hearnville Road, Balham. His parents, meanwhile, lived at 11 Grantham Road, Stockwell; William Percy, 52, was an optician, and while Etheldreda Percy, 49, from Portland, Dorset, does not give an occupation in the 1911 census, she was described as a teacher-assistant mistress in the 1901 census.  Percy’s sister, called Etheldreda like her mother and grandmother, was 17 and at school. Lucy Howard, a 29-year-old single live-in servant from Holbeach, Lincolnshire, is also on the 1911 census.

Henry John Penney

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H. J. Penney
Service no. 7074
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), 1st/9th Battalion
Enlisted in Putney; lived in Brixton
Died of wounds age 21 on 20 October 1916
CWGC: “Son of Henry and Louisa Mary Penney, of 29 Knowle Rd., Brixton, London. Native of London.”
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, France and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA

Information from the 1911 census

Henry John Penney, 15 in 1911, was a goldsmith’s apprentice. He lived at 29 Knowle Road, Brixton where his family had four rooms. His father, Henry Penney, 42, was a stone mason from Southwark, and his mother, Louisa Mary Penney, 41, was from Lambeth. They had three surviving children (of four): Henry, born in Lambeth; Beatrice Jessie Penney, 10; Irene Grave, 8. Both girls were born in Brixton. There were two boarders: Elizabeth McCallum, 46, a married daily housekeeper from Tilbury, Essex, and Gladys Lilian McCallum, 6, born in Portsmouth, possibly Elizabeth’s daughter.

Percy William Pearce

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P. W. Pearce
Service no. 1432
Lance Corporal, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 11th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds on 17 July 1916, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of George Thomas and Marian Pearce, of 45 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth Road, London.”
Remembered at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France

Information from the censuses

Percy William Pearce, 14 in 1911 and working in a wheelwright’s shop, lived with his family in 5 rooms at 28 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth. He was one of eight children (one had died by 1911) of George S. Pearce, 46, a railway police constable from Godalming, Surrey, and his wife Marian Pearce, 46, from South Lambeth. Six children were at home on the night of the census: Ethel E. Pearce, 19, a waitress; Alfred G. H. Pearce, 17, a junior clerk; Percy W. Pearce, 14, Charles J. Pearce, 12; Cecil E. H. Pearce, 9; Louis E. W. Peace, 6. All the children were born in South Lambeth. Augustus Chaddock, a 60-year-old retired man from Westminster, boarded with the family. The Pearces were evidently very attached to Tradescant Road – they were there in 1901, at Number 34.

Frederick John Payne

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F. J. Payne
Service no. 11440
Private, Dorsetshire Regiment, 6th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at Clifton Street, Surrey; lived in South Lambeth
Killed in action 4 July 1916, aged about 27
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Frederick John Payne was born on 13 November 1888, the son of Samuel Payne, a general labourer from Stogumber, Somerset and Sarah Ann (née Stephenson), born in Surat, Gujarat, India.  He was baptised on 5 April 1889 at St Barnabas, South Lambeth.

In 1911 Frederick John Payne, 22, was a general labourer living at 6 Horace Street (now disappeared, this street was near Wilcox Road), Stockwell, where his family had four rooms. His father, Samuel Payne, 54, was a general labourer from Stogumber, Somerset; his mother Sarah Ann Payne, 50, was born in Surat, India. Frederick had five siblings (one had died), three of whom lived at home: Arthur Samuel Payne, 20, a brewer’s labourer; Ellen Kate Payne, 16, a scullery maid; Richard James Payne, 13. All were born in South Lambeth.

In the summer of 1911 Frederick married Selina Ann Brittle, who lived with her family at 16 Wheatsheaf Lane, very close to Horace Street. The first of their three children, Frederick John Brittle Payne, was born out of wedlock, in 1909 and at the time of the 1911 census had been put out to nurse in Reading with the family of Jane Brooks. In the Second World War he served in the East Surrey Regiment and died in action, aged 35, on 30 November 1944 in Netherlands. 

Selina married James Turk Johnson, a fishmonger,  in 1923. 

John Walter Patrick

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J. W. Patrick
Service no. 18989
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 12th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Battersea; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 4 September 1916, aged 23
CWGC: “Son of William and Mary Jane Patrick, of 11, Union Street, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Information from the 1911 census

John Walter Patrick, 17, a carman, lived with his parents and siblings at 11 Union Street, Clapham, where they had four rooms. His father, William Patrick, 56, was a general labourer from Farnham, Surrey; his mother, Mary Jane Patrick, 54, was from Newington Butts. near Elephant and Castle. They had had eight children, seven surviving. Six of these, all born in Clapham, were at home: Louisa Patrick, 21, a packer; Florence Jane Patrick, 20, a packer; John Patrick, 17, a carman; Rose Patrick, 15, a machinist’s helper; Lily Patrick, 13; Cyril Patrick, 9.