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Albert Edward Jordan

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A. E. Jordan
Service no. 17330
Private, Grenadier Guards, 2nd Battalion
Killed in action age 21 on 19 October 1915
CWGC: “Son of George Thomas and Mary Jordan, of 19 Broomgrove Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Vermelles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

Brother of Frank Andrew Jordan

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Albert Edward Jordan lived in 3 rooms at 4 Nealdon Street, Stockwell with his widowed mother and 5 of his 8 siblings. Mary Jordan, 49, was from Islington. Her son Alf Jordan, 26, was a fishmonger; Frank Andrew Jordan, 19, a private in the 6th Rifle Brigade (Army Reserves); Albert, 17, a carman; Letty, 13; and Violet, 11.

Alfred Harold Holman

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A. H. Holman
Service no. 34678
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 182nd Bde.
Enlisted in Chelsea; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds aged about 23 on 11 May 1916
Remembered at Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos, France

Brother of John Orlando Holman, whose CWGC entry states that the family lived at 45 Jeffreys Road, Stockwell.

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Alfred Harold Holman, an 18-year-old warehouse porter, lived in 4 rooms at 45 Riverhall Street, South Lambeth with his mother Sarah Jane McQuillin, 49, her husband Stephen McQuillin, 49, and 4 of his 6 brothers. Sarah Jane was a domestic servant and was born in Yeovil, Somerset. Stephen was a fitter’s labourer, born in Walworth. Sarah’s children were:
Percy Holman, 24, a general labourer, born in South Lambeth (as were all the children)
Ernest Holman, 21, a gardener
Alfred Holman 18, a warehouse porter
John [Orlando] Holman, 15, a junior clerk
Bertie Holman, 13

In 1901 the widowed Sarah J. Holman lived at 10, Thorne Street, Lambeth with her 7 sons.

William Frederick Hine

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W. F. Hine

Brother of Alfred Hine 

William Frederick Hine, born in Bethnal Green, east London, was baptised on 23 June 1895 at Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill in northwest London. 

It has not been possible to ascertain which service he joined or when or how he died. Records show that a man named William Hine died in Fulham, west London in 1920, aged approximately 25.

Alfred Hine

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A. Hine
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, “A” Bty. 280th Bde.
Service no. 925397
Died of wounds on 7 September 1917
“Son of Thomas George and Frances Hine, of 24, Union St., Clapham, London.”
Brother of William Frederick Hine
Remembered at Nunhead (All Saints) Cemetery, south-east London

Information from the 1911 census

Alfred and William F. Hine were sons of licensed victuallers Thomas Hine, 51, born in St. Pancras, north London and Frances Hine, 46, born in Bethnal Green, east London. There were six children:
Florence Hine, 21, assisting in the business, born in St. Pancras
Thomas Hine, 19, an upholsterer, born in St. Pancras
William F. Hine, 17, a shop assistant, born in Bethnal Green
Alfred Hine, 15, an engineer’s assistant, born in Bethnal Green
Ellen Hine, 13, born in Stockwell
A daughter, Elizabeth Hine, 22, lived elsewhere.
In 1911 the family was living in nine rooms at 36 Grove Road, Upper Holloway. In 1901, however, they were living at 15 Wilcox Road, South Lambeth.