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Edward Arthur Slade

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E. A. Slade
Service no. G/17166 (This service number, given on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for E.A. Slade, is not quoted on any other document known to date)
Private, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), Depot
Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (Cpl. 62899) 105th Coy. Labour Corps
Died 30 October 1917, aged about 24
Remembered Solferino Farm Cemetery, Belgium

This identification was made by Chris Burge, who writes:

Edward Arthur Slade was born in 1883 in Battersea, one of William and Leah Frances Slade’s three children. By 1901 the family were living in Kennington and Edward Slade worked as a carpenter. Edward was married on 7 September 1901 to Jessie Florence Merryweather at All Saints, South Lambeth, giving their address as 124 Crimsworth Road, an area dominated by the Nine Elms Locomotive Works.

By the time of the 1911 census, Edward and Jessie had three children, Edward aged 8, Jessie aged 7 and Florrie aged 5. Their son, Stanley Sidney Slade, was born in 1912. Edward now earned his living as a house painter and Jessie worked as an LCC school cleaner. The family of five occupied three rooms at 12 Union Street, Clapham. Two other people lived in two rooms at the same address.

Edward Arthur Slade was probably conscripted in 1916, first joining a training battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. Edward was sent to France as private (corporal?) 53436, Royal Fusiliers at an unknown date.

The Labour Corps was created at the beginning of 1917 with men from the Royal Fusiliers 36th(Labour) Battalion becoming the 105 Company and given service numbers between 62401 and 63000. It is very likely the Edward Slade was wounded or injured while serving in the infantry before he was transferred to the Labour Corps some time in 1917. Edward Arthur Slade lost his life in unknown circumstances on 30 October 1917.

His widow Jessie received a £6 10s war gratuity in 1919 and a widow’s pension for herself and her four children: Jessie Florence Slade, Edward Arthur Slade, Jessie Minnie Slade and Stanley Sidney Slade.

Jessie was remarried in 1919 to Charles E. Forbes and continued to live at 12 Union Street until 1924. Edward’s son, Stanley was living in Larkhall Lane in the 1930s and was a resident of Sutton when he passed away in 2000, aged 87.

Louis Henry Sims

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L. H. Sims
Service no. R/25464
Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 9th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Wandsworth
Killed in action on 21 August 1917, aged about 30
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

Information from the censuses

Louis Henry Sims was an only child. In 1911, aged 24, he was working as a printer’s labourer. His parents, Henry William Sims, 51, a copper and steel plate printer born in Lambeth, and Henrietta Sims, 50, from Richmond, had had two children, but one died. The family lived at 31 Ely Place, Stockwell, in 6 rooms, which they shared with 3 boarders, all born in Lambeth: Emma Chaproniere, 76, a pensioner; Louie Chaproniere, 33, a sewing machinist; and Ivy Henrietta Chaproniere, 5. Ten years previously, the Sims family lived at 37 Ely Place. Henry was born in Lambeth.

On 14 November he married Daisy Elizabeth Amos at St Stephen’s, South Lambeth. 

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.

Arthur Sharman

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Sharman A Lijssenhoek
Photo © Marietta Crichton Stuart

A. Sharman
Service no. A/187
Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 8th Battalion
Born in Battersea; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Wandsworth
Died of wounds on 31 July 1915, aged 21
CWGC: “Son of Elizabeth Sharman of 15 Brooklands Street, Wandsworth Road, SW London. His brother Harry also fell.”
Remembered at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium

Brother of Harry Sharman

Information from the censuses

Aged 17 in 1911, Arthur Sharman was working as a labourer. He was one of 14 children (only seven survived) of Edward Sharman, 62, from Diss, Norfolk, and Elizabeth Sharman, 50, from King’s Lynn, Norfolk. Besides Arthur and his parents, the two-roomed household at 17 Richmond Place, Stockwell included Ann Maria Sharman, 15, a box maker, and Harry, Sharman, then 11. The children were born in Battersea.
Note: The names of Arthur Sharman and his brother Harry were added, out of sequence, to the last panel on the war memorial.

Edgar Stanley Sharman is also on the war memorial – it is not known how or whether he is related to these two brothers.

Albert George Victor Sales

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A. G. V. Sales
Service no. 242156
Private, Leicestershire Regiment, “A” Coy. 2nd/5th Battalion
Killed in action on 26 September 1917, aged 33
Born in Battersea; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Clapham.
CWGC: “Son of Mrs T. Sales, of 36 Peardon Street, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920

On 18 April 1918 Albert Sales was “regarded for official purposes as having died on or around 26/9/17”. He had gone missing during the chaos of battle. He had been at the front for three months.

Sales, a sheet metal worker, presented himself at the recruiting office on 24 February 1916. He gave his address as 82 Larkhall Lane, Clapham. He was measured (5 feet 6¼ inches, with a 35-inch chest expandable by 3 inches), over 10 stone. The Army observed that he had a squint in his right eye.

Like many other conscripts, he went into the Army Reserve, waiting his turn to be mobilised. There he stayed until 4 October 1916. Then he was trained and packed off to France in February 1917. However, Sales had repeated trouble with a septic foot. He was injured on 28 April, but did not receive treatment until 9 May. It continued to give him trouble throughout May. Then in late June he was sent to the Front, and went missing.

Information from the 1911 census

Albert George Victor Sales’s mother, Theresa Sales, a 56-year-old railway waiting room attendant from Doncaster, was living at 172 Stewart’s Road with her youngest child, Archibald Oliver Sales, 15, and married daughter Elizabeth Gertrude Riley, 29, and her two children.