Stockwell War Memorial

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1918

Charles Richard George Hill

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C. R. G. Hill
Service no. 495791
Private, London Regiment, 1st/13th Kensington Battalion; also Machine Gun Corps, attd. 56th Coy.
Born in Camberwell; enlisted in Camberwell; lived in Lambeth
Died of wounds age 37 on 20 March 1918
CWGC: “Husband of Ethel May Hill, of 17 Clitheroe Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, France

Information from the 1911 census

Charles Richard George Hill, 30 in 1911, was a compositor born in Camberwell. His wife, Ethel May Hill, 34, was from Brentford, Middlesex. The couple had no children and occupied 5 rooms at 17 Clitheroe Road, Stockwell.

David James Thomas Hibbert

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D. J. T. Hibbert
Service no. 57427
Lance Corporal, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 1st Battalion
Born in Walworth; enlisted in Hounslow
Killed in action age 24 on 3 May 1918
CWGC: “Son of Mr D. C. J. and Mrs S. M. Hibbert, of 17 Horace Street, Wilcox Road, South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Giavera Memorial, Italy

Information from the 1911 census

The Hibbert family lived in 2 rooms at 126 Dorset Road. David Charles James Hibbert, 45, was a gas fitter. He was born in Walworth. Susannah Maria Hibbert, 41, was born in Southwark. They had 3 sons:
David James Thomas Hibbert, 16, an errand boy, born in Walworth
Stanley Arthur HIbbert, 11, born in Lambeth
Walter Henry, 6, born in Thornton Heath

Andrew Herriott

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A. Herriott
Service no. 470471
Lance Corporal, London Regiment (The Rangers), 12th Battalion
Enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 24 August 1918, aged 21
Remembered at Bray Hill British Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme, France

Brother of John Herriott and Archibald Herriott

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 the Herriott family, 3 of whose sons are on the memorial, lived at 27 Gateley Road, Brixton, where they had 7 rooms. John Herriott, 51, was an electrical engineer from Berwick-upon-Tweed. Mary Herriott, 51, was from Edinburgh. They had 8 children, all surviving in 1911. Six lived at home:
George Hope Herriott, 22, a milkman
May Herriott, 20, a dressmaker
John Herriott, 18, an electrician
Archibald Herriott, 16, a bookseller’s assistant
Andrew Herriott, 14
Isabel Lenore Herriott, 9
All were born in Ponders End, Middlesex.
There was also a boarder, Lillian Eliza Ellery, a 25-year-old married assistant to a wool manufacturer, from Poplar, east London.

Richard Charles Heath

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R. C. Heath
Service no. 42295
Private, Hertfordshire Regiment, 1st/1st Battalion, formerly 242378, South Staffordshire Regiment
Born in Farnborough, Hampshire; enlisted in Camberwell; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action 4 November 1918
Remembered at Ghissignies British Cemetery, Nord, France

On 8 July 1914 Richard Charles Heath, a licensed victualler, married Mary Elsie Redshaw at All Saints, Stoke Newington in north London. Their daughter Elsie Maud was born in March the following year. 

Heath was born in Farnborough, Hampshire on 16 March 1892. He moved to London and is listed in the 1911 census as a barman at The Albion, 2–3 New Bridge Street in the City of London. and lived in Stockwell. He enlisted in Camberwell.

At the time of his death his family lived at 76 Studley Road, Stockwell. Mary died in 1985, and Elsie in 2004, both in Penzance, Cornwall.

Frederick Charles Hayden

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F. C. Hayden
Service no. 724529
Private, London Regiment, 24th Battalion
Born in Thaxted; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Studley Road
CWGC: “Husband of Mrs E. Hayden, of 2 Stanley Villas, Studley Road, Clapham, London.”
Died of wounds at age 36 on  22 August 1918
Remembered at Bray Vale British Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme, France

British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920

Frederick Charles Hayden, a 35-year-old married travelling salesman, living at 2 Stanley Villas, Studley Road, Stockwell, attested on 8 December 1915 and joined the Army Reserve. He was mobilised on 28 August 1916 and posted to France the next day, leaving his wife, Emily (née Austin) and their daughter Ethel, 9. It is unclear from the records whether his 14 days’ leave, granted on 31 July 1918 enabled him to return to London to see them, or were spent near the Front. In any case, he died shortly afterwards, on 22 August.

Few details of his life are available, but the medical examination on mobilisation records him as 5 feet 5 inches tall, with a 34½ inch chest, to which he could add 2 inches. He had both upper and lower dentures. His effects consisted only of two military discs.

Information from the 1911 census

The 1911 census shows a 29-year-old Frederick (or Fredrick*) Hayden working as a warehouseman and living with his wife Emily (née Austin), three-year-old daughter Ethel and in-laws at 2 Stanley Villas, Studley Road, London SW4. He was born in Thaxted, Essex. Emily’s stepfather, Henry Willey, 57, was a railway locomotive engine driver. There was a boarder, Alice Robinson, a 38-year-old single nurse from Gateshead, County Durham.
*The 1911 census has Frederick as Fredreck.