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Cecil Archibald Jaques Treacher

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C. A. J. Treacher
Service no. 33191
Private 2nd Class, Royal Air Force
Died on 9 May 1918, aged 25
CWGC: “Son of Joseph Jaques and Sarah Ann Treacher, of 14 Stansfield Road, Brixton, London.”
Remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Tooting, London SW17

Information from the censuses

Stockwell-born apprentice electrical wireman Cecil Archibald Jaques Treacher, 17, lived with his parents, Joseph Jaques Treacher, 48, an electrical wireman from Clerkenwell, north London and Sarah Ann Treacher, 50, from Bermondsey, and older brother Joseph Jaques, an instructor of handicrafts, born in Newington. Their accommodation at 14 Stansfield Road, Brixton had five rooms, and the family had been there since at least 1901.

Harold Percy Tozer

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H. P. Tozer
Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps/Durham Light Infantry, 9th Battalion
Died in a flying accident on 16 December 1916, aged 25
CWGC: “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 a timber merchants, lived with his parents and sister at 31 Lansdowne Gardens, Stockwell. His father, Henry James Tozer, 43, was a solicitor’s clerk from Shadwell, east London; his mother, Agnes Emma Tozer, 43, was from Ipswich. Lilian Elizabeth Tozer, Harold’s sister, was 16 and working as a clerk for a philatelist (stamp collector/dealer). Both Harold and Lilian were born in South Lambeth. The Child family lodged with the Tozers: Arthur Ernest Child, 32, a cook from Portsmouth; his wife Ethel, 32, from Egham, Surrey, and their son Leslie Eric, 8. The Tozers had been at the same address since at least 1901.

British Army WW1 Service Records 1914-1920 (Officers)

Tozer enlisted in the 4th Battalion of the Cameron Highlanders on 11 September 1914 and served for 347 days with them. He was described as 5 feet 9 inches, with a 36½ inch chest which he could expand by 3½ inches. He embarked from Southampton on 19 February 1915 and was wounded in action the following month (gunshot wound to the elbow). He was invalided back to England, to the Fairfield Hospital, Broadstairs on 18 June.

Later that year he was granted a temporary commission – 2nd Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry (he was gazetted on 20 August 1915). Tozer’s service from then until the accident that killed him in 1918 is not known.

Leonard Hastings Teakle

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L. H. Teakle
Service no. 157
Lance Corporal, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), “D” Coy. 1st/5th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 2 May 1915, aged 25
CWGC: “Son of Elizabeth Mary Ann Teakle, of 10 Rhodesia Road, Clapham, London, and the late Hastings Charles Teakle.”
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ypres, Belgium and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Information from the censuses

Leonard Teakle, 21 in 1911, was a bank clerk. He lived with is widowed mother, Elizabeth Teakle, 47, from Hackney, and at 26 Finchley Road, Walworth. There were four siblings: Henry Teakle, 23, was an insurance clerk; Wilfrid Teakle, 19, was a bank clerk; John Teakle, 11, Ethel Teakle. Harry Collis, 48, a married printer’s warehouseman from Southwark, boarded with the family, who shared six rooms. Leonard’s deceased father Hastings C. Teakle was a wheelwright from Avening, Gloucestershire.

Horace Stillwell

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H. Stillwell
Service no. G/6781
Private, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 2nd Battalion
Born in 1890 in Bethnal Green
Killed in action on 28 September 1915, aged about 25
Remembered at Loos Memorial, France

British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920

The file for Horace Stillwell is very damaged, with ripped pages and what looks like water damage. A few details emerge. He joined at Lambeth on 5 September 1914, weighing a little over 8½ stone. He was 5 feet 5 inches tall. Unmarried.

Information from Stillwell family member Glynis Park

“Horace was the youngest of eight children. His father’s first wife, Eliza Charlotte, died of TB in 1873 aged just 36. In 1911the family were living at 93 Old South Lambeth Road. Thomas aged 76 was a beer retailer, wife Emma was 63. Edwin Ernest, aged 23, and Horace, 21, were both assistant retailers in the business.”
Information from the censuses
Horace Stillwell, 21 in 1911, was an assistant retailer of beer, as was his older brother Edwin Ernest Stillwell, 23. They lived in 4 rooms with their parents, Thomas Stillwell, 76, a beer retailer born in Bethnal Green, east London, and Emma Stillwell, 63, from Birmingham. There were three other children.

Edgar Stanley Sharman

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E. S. Sharman
Service no. S/30908
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 16th Battalion
Killed in action on 31 May 1917, aged 25
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at Camberwell; lived in Lambeth
CWGC: “Son of Charles William and Louise Sharman, of 5, Tradescant Road, South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium

Information from 1901 census

Edgar Stanley Sharman, 19 in 1911, was a ship’s steward. He lived at 5 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth, with his widowed father, Charles William Sharman, 50, a travelling salesman (hairdresser sundries) from Battersea, and siblings Herbert Henry Stanley, 23, a commercial clerk, and May Louise Sharman, 18, who worked for a milliner and draper. All the children were born in South Lambeth.

Benjamin Charles Peploe

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B. C. Peploe
Service no. 453135
Rifleman, London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), 1st/11th Battalion, formerly 6329, 9th London Regiment
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 2 November 1917, aged 25
CWGC: “Husband of Josephine Elsie Peploe, of 30 Lingham Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Gaza War Memorial, Israel and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9

Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

At the end of March 1917, Gaza was attacked and surrounded by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the First Battle of Gaza, but the attack was broken off when Turkish reinforcements appeared. The Second Battle of Gaza, 17-19 April, left the Turks in possession and the Third Battle of Gaza, begun on 27 October, ended with the capture of the ruined and deserted city on 7 November.

Information from censuses

Stockwell-born Benjamin Charles Peploe, 19 in 1911, lived at 70 Lingham Street, Stockwell, where his family had four rooms. His widowed mother, Mildred Elizabeth Peploe, 54, was a greengrocer from Euston, north London. He had four siblings, two of whom lived at home: Violet Daisy Peploe, 16, who is described as “assisting in the business”; Milly Rebecca Savill, 30, a restaurant manageress born in Clapham. The household included Milly’s husband, George Alfred Savill, 31, a meat carver born in Stockwell.

The family at lived at 70 Lingham Street for at least 20 years (they are there on the 1901 and 1891 censuses).  In 1881 the family were at 14 The Polygon, Clapham. The census gives Benjamin’s father Charles Peploe’s occupation as fishmonger and states that he was born in Bermondsey.