F. W. SnellingService no.1676Lance Corporal, London Regiment (Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles), 1st/15th BattalionDied on 18 September 1916Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and on the St Michael’s Church War Shrine, Stockwell Park Road Frederick William Snelling was born on 3 November 1891 in Mile End, east London, the second son of Charles […]
Percy Hendrick Sloots
P. H. Sloots Service no. 25582 Lance Corporal, East Surrey Regiment, 12th Battalion Died age 24 on 31 October 1918 Husband of Lilian E. E. Sloots (nee Mann – they married in March 1918) of 31 Gateley Road, Stockwell, London. Remembered at Kezelberg Military Cemetery, Belgium Information from the censuses In 1911 Percy Hendrick Sloots […]
Edward Arthur Slade
E. A. SladeService 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), DepotSecondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (Cpl. 62899) 105th Coy. Labour CorpsDied 30 October 1917, aged about 24Remembered Solferino Farm Cemetery, […]
Harry (Henry) Saunders
H. Saunders Service no. 9254 Private, Royal Fusiliers, 9th Battalion Born in Shoreditch; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell Died on 7 July 1916, aged 20 CWGC: “Son of Henry and Georgina Louisa Saunders, of 26, Viaduct Buildings, Charterhouse St., Holborn, London” Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France Information from the 1911 census This identification is […]
Thomas Edward Ross
T. E. RossService no. R/6733Able Seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hood Battalion R.N. Div.Died on 29 September 1918, aged 24 (missing, later reported killed in action or died of wounds)Next-of-kin & home address: Wife, Emily [née Brown], 56 South Island Place, Clapham Road, Clapham, London SW9.Service history: Army Reserve 24 June 1916Entered 29 April 1918Draft […]
Sydney (or Sidney) Herbert Rogers
S. RogersPrivate, Middlesex Regiment, 1st Bn. Service no. G/43526. Died on 23 October 1918, aged 32. Remembered at Remembered at Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Chris Burge writes: Sydney (aka Sidney) Herbert Rogers was born in Lambeth in 1886 and baptised at All Saints, South Lambeth on 24 October 1886. His parents, William and […]
Joseph Rogers
J. RogersPrivate, Hampshire Regiment, 2nd Bn. Service no. 27971Died on 6 May 1918, aged about 22.Remembered at Remembered at Cinq Rues British Cemetery, Hazebrouck, Nord, France Chris Burge writes: Joseph Rogers, born in Lambeth in 1896, was the youngest of six siblings. He was baptised together with his two-year-old brother Edward on 16 December at […]
Robert Harry Roberts
R. H. RobertsService no. G/22229Private, Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st/4th BattalionDied on 7 August 1918, aged about 19Remembered at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France, and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census Robert Harry Roberts was a 12-year-old schoolboy in 1911. He lived at 21 Cottage Grove, Stockwell with his […]
Walter Albert Ridout
W. A. RidoutService no. 119029CanadianPrivate, Canadian Corps Cyclist BattalionDied on 16 June 1916, aged 30CWGC: “Son of Mrs A. L. Ridout, of 2 Eythorne Road, Brixton, London, England, and the late Mr W. Y. Ridout. Enlisted Nov.”Remembered at Nunhead (All Saints) Cemetery, London Streatham-born shoemaker Walter Albert Ridout volunteered early in the war. On 12 […]
Everard Vaughan Ridge
E. V. RidgeLieutenant, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 153rd Coy.Died on 9 April 1917, aged 21CWGC: “Son of the late Edward H. Ridge, of 15, Bedford Row, High Holborn, London.”Remembered at Arras Memorial, France and at St John’s Church, Clapham Road, London SW9 Everard Vaughan Ridge attested for service in the Territorial Force on 13 April […]
