Stockwell War Memorial

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1918

Cecil Lissenden

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C. Lissenden
Service no. 156714
Lance Corporal, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 200th Coy., formerly 10935, Royal West Surrey Regiment
Born in Stockwell; lived in Streatham
Killed in action age 20 on 7 October 1918
CWGC: “Son of Mr W. C. Lissenden, of 51 Oxford Street, London.”
Remembered at Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Cecil Walter Lissenden, aged 12, lived at 34 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell, an 8-roomed house, with his father, Cecil Cooper Lissenden, a 44-year-old singing master born in London, his grandfather, Walter Lissenden, 72, born in Lenham, Kent, and grandmother, Elizabeth Lissenden, 82, from Canterbury, Kent. Cecil and his father had lived at this address with Walter and Elizabeth since at least 1901, when Cecil Cooper Lissenden described himself as a dramatist and playwriter. Walter was a retired merchant tailor’s assistant.

Henry Walter Lippold

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H. W. Lippold
Service no. 550848
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), “D” Coy. 2nd/16th Battalion
Enlisted in Westminster; lived in Clapham
Killed in action age 42 on 28 September 1918
CWGC: “Son of Conrad and Rosalie Lippold, of 28 Grantham Road, Clapham, London; husband of Elizabeth Lippold, of 107 Nutfield Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. Served from Sept 1914.”
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Henry Walter Lippold lived at 28 Grantham Road, Stockwell with his widowed mother, Rosalie Henrietta Lippold (née Uffman), 75, who was born in the Strand, London, and his sisters, Clementina Henrietta Lippold, 45 and Henrietta Ida Lippold, 39. The family occupied 7 rooms. Henry was a clerk for a stationers. Rosalie had had 12 children with her husband, Conrad Lippold (5 had died), watchmaker and naturalised British subject from Hanover, Germany. In 1901 Henry was working as a watchmaker’s clerk and  his younger brother Albert A. Lippold, then 23, as a scientific instrument maker.

Alfred Robert Lawrence

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A. R. Lawrence
Service no. 205241
Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1st Bn. attd. 1st/4th Bn.
Born in Southwark; enlisted in Southwark; lived in Lambeth
Killed in action age 27 on 28 March 1918
CWGC: “Son of Alfred and Mary Louisa Lawrence, of 65, Knowle Rd., Brixton, London.”
Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

Tentative identification
Alfred R. Lawrence, a 21-year-old signwriter, lived at 39 Burman Street, Southwark, with his parents, Alfred Lawrence, 45, a private coachman who did not know where he was born, and Louisa Lawrence, 42, a bookfolder born in Southwark. The family occupied 4 rooms. Alfred was an only child, the only survivor of Alfred and Louisa’s 2 children.

William Alfred Lamerton

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W. A. Lamerton
Service no. 217128
Sapper, Royal Engineers, 48th Divisional Signal Coy
Born in Camberwell; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action age 35 on 2 July 1918
CWGC: “Son of James Edward and Emily Lamerton, of Peckham; husband of Louisa Lamerton, of 6, Emily Mansions, Landor Road, Stockwell.”
Remembered at Magnaboschi British Cemetery, Italy

British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920

William Lamerton, a skilled bricklayer (who also described himself on his enlistment papers as a house agent), attested at Lambeth Town Hall on 10 December 1915, just before the national compulsory call-up came into force. He was described as 5 feet 8¼ inches tall with a 37 inch chest (which he could expand 3 inches) and weighing 140 pounds (10 stone); his physical development was judged to be “fair”.

He was assigned to the Army Reserve and mobilised in December 1916. He joined the 48th Divisional Signal Company on 6 May 1917 and was killed in action in Italy in July 1918, leaving Louisa Lamerton a widow.

After Lamerton’s death, Louisa applied for a pension. On 31 October 1918 the Form was returned to the local pensions board, which was based at Hammerton Hall, Stockwell Green, as the Ministry of Pensions was not satisfied with the signature of the person who countersigned it. They responded with information that Dr. Cross of 51 High Street, Clapham had signed.

We do not know if Louisa had any special occupation or whether she was able to supplement the weekly widow’s pension of 20 shillings and 5 pence (just over one pound) she was awarded. Louisa was lucky in one way – she had only one child (seven-year-old Doris Louisa) to care for.

In March 1920, Louisa filed her Form W.5080, in which she listed the relatives of the late soldier. She almost forgot herself by signing herself “wife”, which she scrubbed out and replaced with “widow”.

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 William Lamerton, then 27, and his wife Louisa Lamerton, 27, were living in 6 rooms at 54 Lugard Road, Peckham with William’s older brother Harry Lamerton, 30, and his wife Eliza Lamerton, 37. Louisa was from Nunhead and Eliza from Peckham, while the Lamerton brothers were both born in Camberwell. Doris Lamerton had just been born.

Henry William Laidler

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H. W. Laidler
Service no. 188508
Sapper, Royal Engineers, Gen. Base Depot
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Stockwell
Died age 38 on 25 July 1918
Remembered at Basra War Cemetery, Iraq

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Henry William Laidler, then 31 and working as a plumber, lived in 3 rooms at 42a Lingham Street, Stockwell. He and his wife, Emily Laidler, 28, were born in Lambeth. Emily worked as a cigarette box maker, and they had a 3-year-old daughter, Lilian, who was born in Stockwell.

Information from the 1901 census

In 1901 Henry William Laidler was a 21-year-old plumber living with his family at 13 Brooklands Road. The household consisted of his father, William H. Laidler, 44, also a plumber, born in Hampton Wick; mother, Sarah J. Laidler, 41, born in Islington; brother Arthur L. Laider, 14, shop assistant; and great-aunt, Marion Lamb, 62. Henry and Arthur were both born in Lambeth. A sister, Rose Laidler, born in 1883, is listed on the 1891 census.