Stockwell War Memorial

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1917

Augustus Charles Cook

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A. C. Cook
Service no. G/1381
Private, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 2nd Battalion
Died age 41 on 10 July 1917
Son of Matthew John Cook, of Clapham, London, husband of Mary Ann Cook, of 11 Devonshire Square, Bromley, Kent.
Born in Clapham, enlisted in Bromley, lived in Bromley
Remembered at Basra War Cemetery, Iraq

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Augustus Charles Cook, then 34, lived with his wife, Mary Ann Cook, 29, and their five children in four rooms at 11 Devonshire Square, Bromley. He was born in Clapham and his father, Matthew John Cook, lived there. He enlisted in Bromley.

William Reuben Collett

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W. R. Collett
Service no. S/20722
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion
Killed in action age 19 on 18 May 1917
Born in Battersea, lived in Stockwell
Son of Reuben John and Helen E. Collett, of 75, Tasman Rd., Stockwell, London.
Remembered at Brown’s Copse Cemetery, Roeux, Pas de Calais, France

National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918

COLLETT, W. R., Rifleman, Rifle Brigade.
Joining in June 1916 he was sent to the Western Front at the conclusion of his training and fought at St.Eloi and the Somme. He gave his life for King and country at the Battle of Arras on May 12th, 1917. He was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
“He died the noblest death a man may die,
Fighting for God, and right and liberty.”
75, Tasman Road, Landor Road, S.W.9.

Information from the 1911 census

The Collett family were living in 4 room at 75 Tasman Road in 1911. Reuben John Collett, 44, was a compositor born in Lambeth; Helen Eliza Collett, 44, was born in Battersea. They had had four children, three surviving: Leonard Collett, 21, was an engineer (turner); George Collett, 18, was a machine manager for a printer; William Reuben Collett, 13, was at school. All were born in Battersea.

Alfred Charles Clarke

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A. C. Clarke
Service no. 453028
Rifleman, London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), 2nd/11th Battalion
Died age 22 on 6 November 1917
Son of William and Eliza Clarke, of 18 Wilkinson Street, Albert Square, Clapham
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 the Clarke family occupied 8 rooms at 18 Wilkinson Street, London SW8. William Clarke, 52, a plaster model maker at a terracotta works (possibly this was Doulton’s on Albert Embankment) from Burbage in Leicestershire, and Eliza Clarke, 50, from Whitwick, Leicestershire, had 9 children, all of whom survived. The household was full on the night of the census:
Gertrude Eliza Clarke, 22, born in Hathern, Leicestershire
Elisa Maryann Clarke, 18, a book folder, born in West Bromwich
Alfred Charles Clarke, 15, a grocer’s assistant, born in Lambeth
Albert Thomas Clarke, 11, born in Lambeth
Maud Beetrace [sic] Clarke, 10, born in Lambeth
Doris Lilian Clarke, 5, born in Lambeth
Annie Clarke, 26, visiting from America (married to one of Alfred Charles’ brothers)
Getrude Annie Clarke, 2, Annie’s daughter, born in America
Philip Lindsey Clark, 22, single, a sculptor, born in Brixton, a boarder
Emma Paul, 49, a single lady from Loughborough, was visiting as was Hannah Duplex, 78, a widow from Loughborough.

Charles Henry Charnock

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C. H. Charnock
Service no. 195781
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 120th Bty. 27th Bde.
Killed in action at around age 20 on 14 October 1917
Remembered at La Clytte Military Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium

Information from the 1911 census and the Charnock family

The 10 members of the Charnock family lived in 4 rooms at 15 Madrid Place, South Lambeth. Frederick Thomas Charnock, 41, was a bricklayer, born in Southwark. Kate Charnock (maiden name Bushnell), 36, was also born in Southwark. They had 9 children, 7 surviving.  All were born in Brixton:
Charles Charnock, 14 (born on 3 April 1897 in Ingleton Street, Brixton; baptised in St Andrew’s Church, Stockwell)
Frederick Charnock, 11
Lily Charnock, 9
Alfred Charnock, 8
Florence Charnock, 6
Annie Charnock, 2
Edward Charnock, 9 months
Mary Ann Varns, 63, Kate’s widowed mother, who was born in St Giles, lived with the family.