A. L. Brown
Service no. S/26223
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 8th Battalion
Died age 40 on 10 April 1917
Son of the late Tom and Mary Brown; husband of Edith Maude May (formerly Brown), of Ellerslie Road, Clapham
Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Died
John Bowden
J. Bowden
Service no. 118026
Private, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 157th Coy.
Died age 19 on 5 March 1918
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bowden, of 2 Ely Place, Dorset Road, Clapham, London.
Remembered at Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 John Bowden, then 12, lived with his widowed mother, Harriet Bowden, 38, a laundress at 2 Ely Place, off Dorset Road. His elder sister, Rose Bowden, 14, was a tobacco packer for Lambert & Butler; his younger sister, Grace Bowden, was 9. All were born in Lambeth.
William Bird
W. Bird
Service no. J/24752
Able Seaman, Royal Navy, H.M.S. “Princess Royal.”
Died at around age 22 on 18 July 1918
Son of William Bird, of 21, Irving Grove, Stockwell, London.
Also remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Screen Wall and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9
Information from the 1901 and 1911 censuses
In 1911 William Bird lived with his family in 6 rooms at 21 Irving Grove, off Stockwell Road, SW9 (they are also at this address in the 1901 census). His father, also called William, was 40 and worked as a butcher’s carman. His mother, Mary Ann Bird, 40, was born in Pimlico. Nine of their 11 children survived.
The children on the census were
Arthur Francis Bird, 19, a bioscope operator
Rose Bird, 17, “at home”
William Bird, 15, an errand boy, killed in 1918
Lily Bird, 13
Edith Bird, 9
Albert Bird, 8
Annie Bird, 6
Harry Bird, 4
Marrie Bird, 2
All but Mary Ann Bird were born in Stockwell.
Alfred Gibson, 76, a retired coachman born in Islington, was visiting. He was boarding with the family in the 1901 census as was Alfred Save, 23, a single baker from Clapham.
George Frederick Billingsley
G. F. Billingsley
Service no. 10356
Private, Yorkshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Died age 24 on 29 September 1918
CWGC: “Son of Mrs. A. H. Handel, of 2 Arlington Mansions, 18A Morat Street, Brixton.”
Remembered at Sucrerie Cemetery, Epinoy, France and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London 0DA.
Brother of Sydney Walter Billingsley.
Stepson of Harry Frank Handel
George Frederick Billingsley was born on 23 June 1894 at 6 Robert Street, near Regent’s Park in north London and baptised on 10 July 1894 at Holy Trinity, Gray’s Inn Road.
George and his brother Sydney were among six siblings and three half-siblings.
Information from the censuses and other sources
In 1911 Sydney and George Billingsley, both remembered on the Stockwell War Memorial, lived with their mother, stepfather Harry Frank Handel (also remembered on the memorial), sister and half-brother in 2 rooms at 101 Cornwallis Road, Upper Holloway, north London. Harry Handel, at 29 much younger than his wife, was an army pensioner, now working as a cook. He was born in Kennington. Ada Harriett (née Mew), 42, was born in Banstead, Surrey. The couple has a son, Robert Harry Handel, 11 months, born in Highgate, north London. George Frederick Billingsley, 16, worked as an office boy for a publisher. He was born in Holborn. Sydney Walter Billingsley, 13, was born in Kensal Rise, north London. Winifred Kate Billingsley, 9, was born in Highgate.
Billingsley’s father, Alfred Billingsley, was listed in the census as 37, a printer’s machine minder born in St Luke’s. The family lived at 309 Hornsey Road, Islington. He died in 1903 in Islington.
Ernest James Batterbury
E. J. Batterbury
Service no. S/7006
Lance Corporal, Rifle Brigade, 7th Battalion
Died age 23 on 18 August 1916
Son of Henry Hooper Batterbury and Sarah Alice Batterbury, of 162 Old South Lambeth Road, South Lambeth, London.
Remembered at Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval, France and at St Mark’s Church, Kennington Oval.
Information from 1911 Census
Ernest James Batterbury, 18 in 1911, was a hosier’s assistant, born in Lambeth. He lived at Buckstone Cottges, Oval Place, Dorset Road, London SW8, with his mother, Sarah Alice Batterbury, 47, who was born in the City of London, and father Henry Hooper Batterbury, 47, a theatre attendant, originally from Windsor, Berkshire, five siblings and a boarder.
Ernest, the eldest, was followed by
Rachel May Batterbury, 16, a milliner’s assistant, born in “West Newington, Surrey”
Alice Batterbury, 15, no employment given, born in Lambeth
Alfred Herbert Batterbury, 10, born in Lambeth
Ethel Elizabeth Amy Batterbury, 7, born in Lambeth
Harry Batterbury, 6, born in Lambeth
The boarder was Charles Thomas Gabriel Bottomley, 62, a widowed confectioner from Marylebone.
Harvey Charles Bartel
H. C. Bartel
Service no. 493554
Private, London Regiment, 1st/13th Kensington Battalion
Died age 32 on 23 October 1918
Son of Charles and Elizabeth Bartel, of 28 Rita Road, Vauxhall, London.
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Information from 1911 Census
In 1911 Harvey Charles Bartell (the spelling is double L in the census) was a 24-year-old clerk, born in Battersea and living with his family in 4 rooms at 28 Rita Road, SW8, with his mother Elizabeth Eleanor (50) and father Charles Joseph (57), a carman*, originally from Poplar, East London. Harvey was the eldest of three sons, the others being Arthur Henry, a gasfitter’s assistant, two years younger, and Sidney Ernest, aged 9 and still at school. Their cousin Edith Hart (22), a draper’s assistant, originally from Faversham, Kent (as was her aunt Elizabeth) lived with them. Three households occupied No 28, probably one family on each floor.
* Carmen were often employed by railway companies for local deliveries and collections of goods and parcels. Also sometimes someone who drove horse-drawn trams was called a carman.