T. E. Ross
Service no. R/6733
Able Seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hood Battalion R.N. Div.
Died on 29 September 1918, aged 24 (missing, later reported killed in action or died of wounds)
Next-of-kin & home address: Wife, Emily [née Brown], 56 South Island Place, Clapham Road, Clapham, London SW9.
Service history: Army Reserve 24 June 1916
Entered 29 April 1918
Draft for BEF (British Expeditionary Force) 3 September 1918; joined Hood Battalion 8 September 1918-29 September 1918; Discharged Dead
Remembered at Anneux British Cemetery, France
age 24
Henry John Preston
H. J. Preston
Service no. 2462
Lance Corporal, London Regiment, 1st/24th Battalion
Killed in action on 26 May 1915, aged 24
CWGC: “Son of William and Ellen Preston, of 33, Stockwell Rd., Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, France
Information from the 1911 census
Henry John Preston was the son of William and Ellen Preston. The 1911 census lists William, aged 49, a soda water bottler, and Ellen Preston, 46, both from St Pancras, north London living in three rooms at 37 Stockwell Road. A married couple had a further four rooms in the house. They had seven children, three of them at that address. We have not identified Henry John Preston in the 1911 census.
In 1901 the Preston family lived at 20 Dorset Street, Littlehamton, West Sussex.
Percy William Arthur Philcox
P. W. A. Philcox
Service no. 3252
Rifleman, London Regiment (The Rangers), “C” Coy. 1st/12th Battalion
Killed in action on 8 May 1915, aged 24
CWGC: “Son of Alice E. Philcox, of 15 Palace Rd., Streatham Hill, London, and the late Alfred James Philcox.”
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA, and on a family memorial at West Norwood Cemetery
In 1911 19-year-old Percy William Arthur Philcox was living with his family at 255 South Lambeth Road and working as a clerk in his father’s timber business.
Brother of Cecil Ernest Philcox
Frank Naish
F. Naish
Service no. 37514
Private, Wiltshire Regiment, 1st Battalion, formerly 7371, Royal Berkshire Yeomanry
Born in Lambeth; lived in Clapham
Killed in action 18 September 1918, aged about 24
Remembered at Targelle Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Guislain, France
Information from the 1911 census
A tentative identification. This Frank Naish is the only one listed for Lambeth. In 1911 17-year-old Frank Naish lived at 3 Belgrave Terrace, Brixton. He was one of five children of Francis Naish, 46, who worked in a carriers department and was born in Castle Cary, Somerset, and Clara Naish, 45, from Jersey. The children were John Naish, 21, a leather cutter; Frank Naish; Dorothy Naish, 18, a milliner; Robert Naish, 15, a messenger; Evelyn Naish, 11. All were born in Brixton. There were two lodgers: Emily Payne, 44, a single cook, and Beatrice Payne, 43, a single nurse, both from Rotherhithe, south-east London.
Claude Percy Lloyd
C. P. Lloyd
Service no. 240489
Private, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, “A” Coy. 10th Battalion
Killed in action age 24 on 20 November 1917
CWGC: “Son of Annie Eliza Lloyd, of 24 Aldebert Terrace, South Lambeth Rd., London, and the late Arthur Wellesley Lloyd.”
Remembered at Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, France
Information from the censuses
In 1911 Claude Percy Lloyd, 17, was working as a printer’s reader and living with his widowed mother and brother in 2 rooms at 29 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth. Annie Elizabeth Lloyd, 44, was a dressmaker, born in Westminster. Arthur Lionel Lloyd, 20, was a storekeeper’s assistant. He was born in Battersea.
The 1901 census included Claude Lloyd’s father, Arthur Wellesley Lloyd, a 44-year-old schoolmaster born in Ireland. The family was living at 25 Aldebert Terrace.
S. Levy
Not identified.