H. P. TozerSecond Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps/Durham Light Infantry, 9th BattalionDied in a flying accident on 16 December 1916, aged 25CWGC: “Son of Henry James and Agnes Emma Tozer, of 31, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, London.”Remembered at East Harnham (All Saints) Churchyard, Wiltshire Information from the censuses In 1911 Harold Percy Tozer, 19, a clerk for […]
Ernest Thomas Skudder
E. T. Skudder Service no. 651614 Rifleman, London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles), 21st Battalion Enlisted at Camberwell; lived in Clapham Wounded accidentally on 18 February 1918, aged 20. Remembered at Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, France National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918 SKUDDER, E. T., Rifleman, 21st London Regiment (1st Surrey Rifles). He volunteered […]
Cecil Ernest Philcox
Awarded the Military Cross
Horace Thomas Pelling
H. T. Pelling Service no. CH1/8111 Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry, H.M.S. “Bulwark.” Died on 26 November 1914, aged 18 Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial Information from Royal Naval Division Horace Pelling was born on 9 December 1895 in Clapham. He enlisted on 3 July 1913, embarked on H.M.S. “Bulwark” on 22 October 1914, but, […]
William Reginald Guy Pearson
Died in a flying accident on 20 June 1918, aged 21
George Sidney Miller
G.S. MillerPetty Officer Stoker, Royal Navy, HMS VanguardService no. 311632Died in an explosion on 9 July 1917, aged 27Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent Chris Burge writes: George Sidney Miller was born in Willesden, northwest London in 1892, the second child of parents George Henry and Elizabeth Miller, who were both originally from Great Yarmouth […]
Henry Langford
H. LangfordPrivate, Royal Sussex Regiment, 11th Bn. Service no. 36921 Died on 8 May 1919, aged about 39Remembered at Murmansk New British Cemetery, Russia Chris Burge writes: Henry Langford was born in 1879 in the village of Midgham, Berkshire, the second child of Jemima Hannah Hunt and master brewer Alfred Langford, who had married four […]
William George King
W. G. KingService no. 51125Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, 30th Amb. TrainBorn in Chelsea; enlisted in London; lived in LambethDied in an accident on 10 January 1917, aged about 40Remembered at St. Pierre Cemetery, Amiens, Somme, France National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918 KING, W. G., Private, R.A.M.C.He volunteered in January 1915, and shortly […]
Charles Bernard Farrell
C. B. Farrell Service no. 8272 Colour Serjeant, South Lancashire Regiment, 2nd Battalion Died after a fall from his horse, age 26, on 15 April 1916 CWGC: “Son of Michael and Elizabeth Farrell, of 66, Dalyell Road, Brixton, London. Born at Warrington.” Remembered at Streatham Park Cemetery National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918 FARRELL, […]
Albert Curtis
A. Curtis Service no. SS/8149 Private, Army Service Corps Died on 30 August 1915, aged 35 Remembered at Wandsworth Cemetery, Magdalen Road, Earlsfield, south-west London Albert Curtis left a widow, Forence Maud Curtis, living at Paradise Road, Stockwell, and five young children. Albert married Florence in 1906, and worked as an upholsterer and maker of […]