W. H. Jones
Service no. 229583
Petty Officer, Royal Navy, H.M.T.B. “90.”
Died age 29 on 25 April 1918
CWGC: “Son of Harry Jones; husband of Ellen Millicent Jones, of 11 Garden Row, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Portsmouth Naval Memorial
age 29
Alfred Edward Hogg
A. E. Hogg
Service no. S/12345
Private, Seaforth Highlanders, 1st Battalion
Killed in action age 29 on 5 November 1917
CWGC: “Son of Edward Hogg, of 56 Sidney Road, Stockwell, London, and the late Jessie Mary Hogg (nee Skepelhorn).”
Remembered at Basra Memorial, Iraq
Information from the 1911 census
Edward (aka Alfred Edward) Hogg, 55, a mercantile clerk born in Bermondsey, and his wife Jessie Mary Hogg, 48, born in Blackfriars, lived at 56 Sidney Road, Stockwell with 8 of their 9 children (Alfred Edward Hogg was missing from the household). Two children had died by 1911.)
Ethel Josephine Hogg, 27, a shirt machinist, born in Stockwell
Edith hogg, 26, a shirt machinist, born in Stockwell
WInifred Jessie Hogg, 24, a clerk, born in Stockwell
Alice Mary Hogg, 21, a typist, born in Stockwell
Ernest Leonard Hogg, 16, a “boy clerk”, born in Southwark
Elsie Kathleen Hogg, 13, born in Southwark
Amy Lillian Hogg, 11, born in Southwark
Eric Douglas Hogg, 6, born in Southwark
Information from Roots Web
Jessie Skepelhorn was born in 1863 at at 127 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, Surrey, married Alfred Edward Hogg, a wharf clerk, born in Bermondsey, at St Saviour, Southwark, and died in Lambeth in 1915, aged 52. Alfred and Jessie had eight children, listed in the 1901 census at which point the family was living at 81 St George Road, Southwark:
Ethel Josephine Hogg, born 1884 at Clapham. In the 1901 census she is described as a shirt-maker.
Edith Nellie Hogg, born 1885 at Clapham, also described as a shirt-maker.
Winifred Jessie Hogg, born 1886 at Clapham
Alfred Hogg, born in 1888 at Clapham
Alice Mary Hogg, born in 1889 at Clapham
Ernest Cecil, born 1892 in Southwark
Elsie Kathleen Hogg, born 1897 in Southwark
Amy Lilian Hogg, born 1899 at Southwark
In 1901 Cecil H. Skepelhorn, Jessie’s brother lodged with the family. He was a 19-year-old general labourer, born in 1881, married in 1907, which was also the year of his death. The Skepelhorn family originated in Overton, Wiltshire.
In 1891 the family was living at 17 Market Place in Stockwell.
Henry Frost
H. Frost
Service no. 2/9508
Private, East Surrey Regiment, 7th Battalion
Died on 24 March 1916, aged 29
Remembered at Calais Southern Cemetery, France
This identification was made by Chris Burge, who writes:
Henry Frost was born at the end of 1886 in Lambeth, the second youngest of what would be eight known children of parents Thomas and Letitia (née Knight) Frost. Henry’s mother died in 1897 and the family home had broken up by 1901. Henry (Harry), then 14, worked as a ‘carman’ and lived with his older brother Joseph’s family in Stockwell.
The idea of six months initial training, followed by annual camp with bounty, was attractive enough for Henry Frost to join the newly formed ‘Special Reserve’ of the East Surrey Regiment on 16 January 1908. He was described as being 5ft 2ins (1.6m) tall, weighing 114lbs (51.5kg) and with brown eyes and dark brown hair. Part way through his initial training, Henry Frost decided his future lay in the Army and he transferred to a regular battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, becoming private 9508, Frost, on 25 April 1908. After two years in the UK, his battalion was posted overseas in 1910 and Henry Frost would not return to England until late in 1914 after the outbreak of the Great War.
After a short period of acclimatisation and re-fit the the 2/East Surreys, arrived in France on 19 January 1915. Henry Frost suffered a bad case of frostbite to both feet due to the squalid conditions in front line trenches. He was invalided back to England on 17 February 1915. He returned to duty on 8 April 1915, posted to the 3/East Surreys at Dover to regain fitness before returning to France on 14 December 1915, in time for another winter. Henry Frost did not rejoin his old battalion but was posted to the 7/East Surreys, part of Kitchener’s New Armies.
In March 1916, Henry Frost’s battalion manned trenches opposite the infamous Hohenzollern Redout, which had been the scene of bitter fighting in 1915. Between 7 and 18 March, the 7/East Surreys were subjected to intense enemy shelling, suffering 34 killed, 22 missing and 243 wounded. Another 39 were hospitalised with shell shock. Henry Frost was likely to have been wounded around this time and evacuated to one of the hospitals at Calais before he succumbed to his wounds on 24 March 1916.
At some stage Henry Frost had nominated as next of kin both his bother Joseph Frost living at 11 Moat Place, Stockwell, and his brother George who lived in Norwood. It was Joseph Frost who received Henry’s medals in 1920. In the absence of a sole legatee, the war gratuity was paid in equal shares to his six brothers and two married sisters.
The creation of the Stockwell War Memorial was their chance to the honour the name of a lost brother.
Jules Benjamin Alfred Desaleux
J. B. A. Desaleux
Service no. 1250216
Gunner, Canadian Field Artillery, 76th Bty. Reserve Bde.
Died age 29 on 25 May 1917
Son of J. B. A. and Edith Desaleux, of London, England; husband of Alice E. Desaleux, of 1399, Winnipeg Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Remembered at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Kent
Brother of Ernest William Desaleux and Frederick Desaleux
Shorncliffe Barracks, on the Kent coast close to Folkstone and Dover, was inhabited mainly by Canadian troops, and subject to airborne attacks by German bombers. The most devastating came on 25 May 1917 when two bombs fell on the huts occupied by 18 soldiers, of whom 16 were Canadian. There were 71 military and civilian casualties, including Jules Benjamin Desaleux.
Jules had emigrated with his wife to Canada and lived with at 253 Park View Street, St. James, Winnipeg. He attested on 8 January 1917, stating that he had previously served in the Territorials with the Royal West Surreys. Jules was described as brown-eyed with dark brown hair and a fair complexion, and 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a 36-inch chest.
Herbert Howard Crocker
H. H. Crocker
Service no. 203662
Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1st Battalion
Killed in action age 29 on 7 April 1917
Son of Horace Howard Crocker, of 52 Hoppers Road, Palmer’s Green, London; husband of Edith Maud Crocker, of 13 Tregothnan Road, Clapham, London.
Remembered at Arras Memorial, France
Information from the 1911 census
Herbert Howard Crocker, 23 in 1911, was working as a dairy manager at 2 Myrtle Cottages, Park Road in Hillingdon, Uxbridge, north London. The house had 4 rooms, including kitchen. He and his wife, Edith Maud Crocker, 21, had been married a year and had a one-month-old baby, Evelyn Elsie Crocker, born in the borough of Uxbridge. Herbert was born in Paddington; Edith in Halesworth, Suffolk.
Meanwhile, his parents Horace Howard Crocker and Clara Sophia Crocker were living at 8 Moat Place, Stockwell where Horace was a dairy manager and Clara “assisting in the business”. Their remaining 4 children lived with them.
Information from the 1901 census
In 1901 Herbert Crocker (given as Hubert H. Crocker on the transcription of the census) lived at 131 Sugden Road, Battersea with his family. Horace H. Crocker, 40, was a dairy manager born in St Pancras; Clara S. Crocker, 39, was born in Plumstead, Kent. Each of the children on the census was born in a different location: Horace A. Crocker, 17, an electrical engineer, was born in Finsbury Park; Herbert H. Crocker, 13, was born in Paddington; Frank G. Crocker, 8, was born in Brixton; Gerald Crocker, 4, was born in Wanstead, Essex; Bessie P. Crocker, 2, was born in Battersea. Alice M. Alton, 20, born in Battersea, lived in as a general domestic servant.
Charles Edward Collins
C. E. Collins
Service no. 37844
Private, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 9th Battalion
Died age 29 on 28 April 1918
Son of Walter and Eliza Collins; husband of Lucy Rebecca Collins, of 126 Dorset Road
Remembered at Grand-Seraucourt British Cemetery, Aisne, France