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1917

George Steven Strange

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G. S. Strange
Service no. 39606
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Lambeth
Killed in action on 11 May 1917
Remembered at Wancourt British Cemetery, France

George Steven (sometimes Stephen) Strange was born in 1893 in Stockwell and enlisted at Lambeth. In 1911 he lived at 33 Cobbett Street, off Dorset Road, with his stepfather William Barrett, 45, and mother Sarah Barrett, 47, from Stepney, east London, and 13-year-old sister Alice. George, then 17, worked as a kitchen porter in a hotel. George’s father had been a brewer’s labourer.

Joseph Strand

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J. Strand
Service no. 6/9792
Corporal, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 9th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London
Died of wounds on 18 August 1917, aged about 33
Remembered at Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium

Information from the censuses

Barman Joseph Strand, 28, was unemployed in 1911. He lived with his widowed mother, Elizabeth Sarah Strand, 58, and brother, Hebert Stanley Strand, 25, a taxi motor mechanic at 57 Hartington Road, Stockwell. The family shared their two-roomed home with Catherine Shery, a single 26-year-old cook. All members of the household were born in Lambeth. Elizabeth had five children (one had died). In 1901 the Strand family lived at 69 Dorset Road. Ten years previously, in 1891, the family lived at 2 Alfred Place, in South Lambeth. Henry Strand, Joseph’s father, was a painter.

Walter Henry Stone

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W. H. Stone
Service no. R/34903
Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 8th Battalion, formerly S/23009, Rifle Brigade, TR/13/8075, 20th Training Reserve Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Stockwell
Died of wounds on 2 May 1917, aged 19
CWGC: “Son of Henry and A. Stone, of 37 Hargwyne Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, France and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Information from the censuses

Lambeth-born Walter Henry Stone, 13 in 1911, lived at 13 Hargwyne Street, Stockwell, with his parents, Henry Stone, 40, a carter from Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, and Elizabeth Alice Stone, 44, from Tylers Causeway, Hertfordshire. They had three children (two had died): apart from Walter, there was Ivy Stone, 7, and Florence Alice Stone, 5. All three were born in Lambeth. In 1901 the Stone family lived at 42 Mordaunt Street.

Herbert Malcolm Stockton

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H. M. Stockton
Service no. 49206
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, “B” Bty.
Killed in action on 11 April 1917, aged about 21
Remembered at Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt, Pas de Calais, France

Brother of Harold P. Stockton

National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918

STOCKTON, H[arold]., Gunner, R.F.A.
He volunteered in February 1915, and in the same year was drafted to France, where he did excellent work as a gunner in the Armentières sector. He was severely wounded in action during an engagement, and subsequently succumbed to his injuries in 1915, and was burried at Bailleul. He was entitled to the 1914-1915 Star, and the General Service and Victory Medals.
“He joined the great white company of valiant souls.”
20, Rumsey Road, Stockwell, S.W.9.

STOCKTON, H[erbert]. M. S., Gunner, R.F.A.
He volunteered in February 1915, and in the same year was drafted to France. During his service overseas he did good work as a gunner in many engagements, including that at Armentières. He gave his life for King and Country early in 1916, and was entitled to the 1914-15 Star, and the General Service and Victory Medals.
“The path of duty was the way to glory.”
20, Rumsey Road, Stockwell, S.W.9.
British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920
Three Stockton brothers, Alfred, Herbert and Harold, signed up for the war effort, but only Alfred survived. His records are in the archive (those for Herbert and Harold were destroyed).

Alfred Leonard Stockton, a gas fitter, was 22 when he enlisted on 3 September 1914. He was just over 6 feet, weighed over 11 stone, with a fair complexion, grey eyes and light brown hair. He wore a moustache. We know this fact because, after returning to London after the death of his mother in 1916, he failed to return to his battalion on time. The police were contacted and issued a description.

Information from the censuses

In 1911 the Stockton brothers were living in four rooms at 39 Electric Avenue, Brixton (they moved to Rumsey Road later). Harold P. Stockton, 24, was a butcher shop assistant, born in Finchley, north London. Alfred Leonard Stockton, 18, was a gas engineer, born in Stockwell. Herbert Malcolm Stockton, 16, was an apprentice brass finisher, born in Brixton. Their parents, Arthur Stockton, 57, a stationer from St. Luke’s, and Clara F. Stockton, 54, from Thornby, Northamptonshire, had six children, the others being Gladys R. D. Stockton, 21, a typist born in Stockwell, Frank J. E. Stockton, 10. An older son had left home. In 1901 the family lived at 68, Solon Road.

William George Percy Stanton

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W. G. P. Stanton
Service no. 926496
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, “A” Bty. 290th Bde.
Born in Bethnal Green, east London; enlisted in London
Killed in action on 30 October 1917, aged 19
CWGC: “Son of John and Ellen Stanton, of 37 Lansdowne Road, South Lambeth Road, London.”
Remembered at St Julien Dressing Station Cemetery, Belgium

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Stanton was a 13-year-old schoolboy living with his parents, John and Ellen, in three rooms at 43 Middleton Road, Dalston. John worked as a customs watcher, and Ellen as a tailoress, machining trousers. Their daughter Mary Ellen, 16, was a dressing-gown machinist. John Thomas Charles, 14, was a packing in a clothes warehouse.

William Thomas Snelling

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W.T. Snelling
Service no. R/2283
Able Seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Howe Bn. R.N. Div.
Died on 26 October 1917 (missing, assumed killed in action), aged 23
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Brother of Frederick William Snelling and cousin of Harold Measday Snelling 

William Thomas Snelling, born in Limehouse, east London on 5 May 1894, the third son of Charles Henry and Emily Jane Snelling, and baptised at St Anne’s, Limehouse on 30 May (see Frederick William Snelling for family details). Formerly of the 2/1st Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, enlisted in the Territorial Force on 30 August 1916, transferring to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 16 June 1917. He joined the British Expeditionary Force on 4 July 1917 and Howe Battalion on 1 September. 

William’s father Charles Henry Snelling of 260 South Lambeth Road, Stockwell, was named as his next of kin. 

Ex-315900 Private 2/1st Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry, enlisted Territorial Force 30 August 1916, transferred to RNVR for RND 16 June 1917 ; Draft for BEF 4 July 1917, joined Howe Bn. 1 September 1917 to 26 October 1917 DD (declared dead).
Born 5 May 1894
Next-of-kin: Father, Charles Henry Snelling, 260 South Lambeth Road, Stockwell, London SW9.