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1918

Alfred James Harris

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A. J. Harris
Service no. G/18601
Private, Royal Sussex Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Born in South Lambeth; enlisted in Camberwell
Killed in action age 19 on 17 October 1918
Remembered at Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, Aisne, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Alfred James as a 12-year-old schoolboy living with his family at 14 Larkhall Lane, where they occupied 7 rooms. Frederick James Harris, 51, a brewery stoker and Eliza Mary Harris, 56, did not give birthplaces. They had 8 children, 5 of whom were included on the census return:
William John Harris, 30, a railway stoker, born in Twickenham
Albert Frank Harris, 26, a packer, born in Twickenham
Edith Alice Harris, 17, a dressmaker’s assistant, born in South Lambeth
Minnie Eliza Harris, 16, a packer, born in South Lambeth
Alfred James Harris, 12, born in South Lambeth

Charles Morley Harradine

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C. M. Harradine
Service no. 47322
Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 12th Battalion
Born in Tottenham, north London; enlisted in Wandsworth; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds age 19 on 19 July 1918
CWGC: “Son of Sidney and Mary Harradine, of Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Ligby-St Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Charles Harradine was 11 and living with his family at 12 Gaskell Street, Clapham (off Larkhall Rise). Sidney Harradine, 36, was an undertaker’s coachman.He was born in Hensworth, Hertfordshire. Mary Harradine, 46, was born in Tottenham. They had had 5 children but in 1911 only 2 survived: Florence Harradine, 13, born in Tottenham, and Charles, 11, born in Wood Green.

Charles William Hall

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C. W. Hall
Service no. G/10772
Private, Royal Sussex Regiment, 11th Battalion; also Machine Gun Corps, attd 39th
Killed in action aged about 25 on 14 April 1918
CWGC: “Son of Mrs. M. C. Hall, of 13, Priory Rd., South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at St. Venant-Robescq Road British Cemetery, Robecque, Pas de Calais

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Charles William Hall, then 18, lived with his widowed mother, Mary Chamberlain Hall, 59, at 13 Priory Road, South Lambeth, where they occupied 3 rooms. Mary was from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Charles, an only child, was born in Lambeth and worked as a clerk for a bottled beer manufacturer. On the night of the census, Mary Jane Jones, a 31-year-old married woman and her son Alfred James Jones, 2, were visiting. They were both Lambeth-born.

Sidney Wallace Griffiths

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S. W. Griffiths
Service no. 25351
Private, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 6th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Clapham
Killed in action age 19 on 2 July 1918
CWGC: “Son of William and Caroline Griffiths, of 8 Aldebert Terrace, Albert Square, Clapham Road, London.”
Remembered at Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert, France

Information from the censuses

In 1911 the Griffiths family was living at 8 Aldebert Terrace, South Lambeth. William Griffiths, 53, was a blacksmith working for the railway, from Mornston in Glamorganshire. Carrie Griffiths, 46, was from Oldswinford, Worcestershire. They had 6 children, all surviving in 1911.
Thomas Griffiths, 15, was a junior clerk in a stationery company
William Griffiths, 13
Sidney Griffiths, 12
Mildred Griffiths, 9
Albert Griffiths, 7
Charlie Griffiths, 1
All the children were born in Lambeth.
Theodore Arthur Hill, a single 32-year-old theatrical actor from Blackheath, south-east London, boarded with the family. In Ten years previously, in 1901 the Griffiths family was found at 183 South Lambeth Road living with 4 boarders.

Horace Granger

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H. Granger
Service no. 684457
Private, London Regiment, 2nd/22nd Battalion
Formerly 700253, 23rd London Regiment
Died age 30 on 10 October 1918
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at St John’s Hill; lived in Lambeth
CWGC: “Son of Ann Granger of 8 Ashburton Villas, Fruen Road, Feltham, Middx. Native of South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Horace Granger (given as Horrace by his father on the census return) was 23 in 1911. He lived with his parents and sister in 6 rooms at 20 Rutland Street (now gone), South Lambeth. John Granger, 71, was a house decorator from Broadhembury, Devon. Ann Granger, 66, was from Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Elsie Granger, 34, was born in Lambeth as was Horace (Horrace).