A. Ireland
Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles, 15th Battalion
formerly 6822, London Regiment
Born in Peckham; enlisted in Wandsworth; lived in Brixton
Killed in action on 22 November 1917
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Arthur Ireland was born in Peckham and lived in Brixton. He enlisted in Wandsworth. His death was ‘presumed’ meaning that he was one of the 700,000 whose remains were never recovered. His name is included in Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914–1918.
J. S. Hymes
Service no. 394311
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), 1st/9th Battalion
Enlisted in London; lived in Brixton
Died of wounds on 29 May 1917
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, France
In 1911 John Simpson Hymes, 29, lived at 16 Westgate Road, Dartford. He was a sales manager, born in Liverpool. His wife, Ruby Clara Hymes, 24, was born in Lambeth, and their son, John Edward Hymes, 10 months, was born in Clapham; two further children followed. The couple married at St Mark’s, Kennington in 1908.
Hymes’s widow married James F. Moore in 1919.
F. M. Huntley
Service no. 393151
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), 1st/9th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Camberwell; lived in Clapham
Killed in action aged 39 on 3 May 1917
CWGC: “Husband of Fanny Beatrice Huntley, of 90, Portland Place N, Clapham Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1911 census
Frank Morley Huntley, 32 and born in Kennington, was a bookseller. In 1911 he lived with his wife and 4 children at 10 St Stephens Terrace, South Lambeth. Fanny B. Huntley, 29, was born in Kennington.
Their children were
Frank I. W. Huntley, 8
Helen B. Huntley, 5
Winifred Huntley, 3
Constance M. Huntley, 10 months
Stanley G. Stephenson, 24, a single civil servant from Canterbury, boarded with the family.
There are two tentative identifications for H. Hunter – Harry Hunter and Hugh Hunter, who is named on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA. Research on this is ongoing.
H. Hunter
(Harry Hunter)
Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps
Died of wounds age 30 on 5 November 1917
CWGC: “Son of Robert and Ann Mercy Hunter, of Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1911 census
Harry Hunter, 22, was one of 5 children of Robert Hunter, 54, an organ builder born in Lambeth, and Ann Mercy Hunter, born in Stockwell. The family lived at 87 High Street, Clapham, where they had 9 rooms, with Ann Esther Hunter, 56, sister to Robert. The 5 children, all of whom were born in Clapham, were:
Alfred Robert Hunter, 25, and George Frederick Hunter, 22, organ builders like their father
Harry Hunter, 24, and Robert Moore Hunter, 19, clerks in the civil service
Mary Adeline Hunter, 14
Ada Ody, 26, a domestic servant born in Paddington, lived with the family.
Information from The Saleroom
Harry Hunter was born in 1887, second son of Robert Hunter, an organ builder who lived at 87 High Street, Clapham, London. Pre-war he was a keen motorcyclist and was selected as a goalkeeper to play for Southampton F.C. during the 1913-14 season. Recorded as a Civil Service Clerk upon his initial enlistment in the 28th Battalion, London Regiment, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. Hunter died as a result of injuries suffered whilst serving with 1 Aeroplane Supply Depot on 5 November 1917, no doubt whilst delivering much-needed aircraft to the front lines. He is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, besides being commemorated upon the Stockwell War Memorial and at Holy Trinity, Clapham Common.
Hunter is recorded in All the Saints: A Complete Players’ Who’s Who of Southampton F.C. as one of 19 members of the Club to have died during the Great War; sold with the recipient’s Royal Flying Corps cap badge, a bronze Streatham Motorcycle Prize Medal, 30mm, engraved to the reverse, ‘Members Hill Climb. April 16th 1910. Class I. 2nd. H. Hunter,’ and copied MIC and research.
H. C. Hunt
(Henry Charles Hunt)
Service no. G/50055
Lance Corporal, Middlesex Regiment, 11th Battalion
Died age 25 on 9 April 1917
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at Kingston; lived in Clapham
CWGC: “Son of Henry and Matilda Hunt, of Conway Street, Wandsworth Road, Lambeth; husband of Elizabeth Caroline Hunt, of 122 Bennerley Road, Northcote Road, Battersea, London.”
Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1911 census
Henry Charles Hunt, 20 in 1911, was the eldest child of Henry Hunt, 42, a painter’s labourer, and Matilda Hunt. 40. The couple had had 9 children, 7 surviving at the time of the census. The entire family was born in Lambeth.
Henry Charles Hunt, 20, a lift porter
Matilda Hunt, 18, a waitress
Maud Hunt, 16, an assistant in tea rooms
Rose Hunt, 14
Annie Hunt, 11
Lily Hunt, 7
Frederick Hunt, 4
Emma Maxter, a 50-year-old single ironer born in Lambeth, boarded with the family.
The Hunts lived in 4 rooms at 148 Wandsworth Road.
W. T. Hornsby
Service no. 202656
Corporal, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 2nd/1st Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Paddington; lived in Lambeth
Died 16 June 1917
Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Hornsby was born in Clapham on 19 February 1894, the son of John Hornsby, a painter and decorator, and Lydia. In 1911 he was living at 19 Clarence Street, South Lambeth with his parents, three siblings and two boarders, and working as a dining car attendant for the London & South West Railway. He enlisted in Paddington, west London.