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Hubert Tindal Sutton

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H. T. Sutton
Service no. 9005
Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion
Born in Battersea; enlisted in London
Died on 21 November 1914, aged 30
CWGC: “Son of Stanley and Mary Sutton, of 5 Gauden Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium

Information from the censuses

I have not managed to track down Hubert Tindal Sutton in the 1911 census, but his parents, Stanley Sutton, 49, a clerk from Tenterden, Kent, and Mary Sutton, 47, from London, are found at Tendring, Essex. The census shows that Stanley and Mary claimed they had had five children, two of whom had died. As they named three daughters on the census (Mary G. Sutton, 20, Ethel D. M. Sutton, 16, and Anita P. Sutton, 9, one wonders whether there was some kind of rift with Hubert. The family had a live-in servant, Alice Woods, 17, from Gillingham, Kent.

In 1901 Stanley Sutton was a 39-year-old pawn broker from Tenderden, Kent, living at “41 & 43 Battersea Park Road” according to the 1901 census. His wife, Mary Sutton, was born in Kennington. Hubert’s occupation is not given (he was then 17). He was born in New Brompton, Kent. His sisters, Mary Sutton (10) and Esther Sutton (6), were born in Battersea. Mary Hallard, 20, from Sheerness, Kent, was the family’s live-in domestic servant, and Samuel Perry, 29, described as an “assistant pawn broker” and who was born in Kilburn, London, resided with the family. It is likely that the Suttons lived over the shop.

Charles James Stanley

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C. J. Stanley
Service no. 2862
Driver, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd/47th Div. Ammunition Col.
Died on 14 September 1916, aged about 24
Remembered at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France

In 1911 Charles James Stanley, a carter for a confessioner, lived in four rooms at 23 Clarence Street, Studley Road, Stockwell with his widowed mother, Henrietta (née Coleman), 46, who was born in Lambeth, and four of his seven siblings and other members of his extended family. He was 19 and worked as a carter.

Stanley was born in 1891 and baptised at St Andrew’s, Stockwell Green on 17 May 1893. His father, William Heysed Stanley, was a house decorator and the family lived at 19 Lingham Street. 

In 1912 Charles James Stanley married Dorothy Mary Elizabeth Smith. A daughter, Dorothy Rose Muriel, was born in 1913 and a son, Charles Frederick Henry, posthumously, in 1917.

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Charles James Stanley lived in four rooms at 23 Clarence Street, Studley Road with his widowed mother, Henrietta Stanley, 46, who was born in Lambeth. He was 19 and a carter. His siblings were:
William Stanley, 27, a butcher’s assistant, born in Lambeth
Minnie Stanley, 21, a “layer on”, born in Lambeth
Ernest Stanley, 11, born in Clapham
Ethel Stanley, 8, born in Stanley
Henrietta Stuart, 26, married, born in Lambeth
Henrietta Stuart’s, husband, Sidney Stuart, 27, a general labourer, born in Bermondsey
Minnie Stuart, 1, their daughter, born in Clapham
Alice Stuart, 6 months, born in Lambeth
Henrietta had had 10 children, seven surviving.

Frederick William Snelling

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F. W. Snelling
Service no.1676
Lance Corporal, London Regiment (Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles), 1st/15th Battalion
Died on 18 September 1916
Remembered 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 Henry Snelling, a grocer born in Ramsgate, Kent, and Emily Jane Snelling (née Knudson), from Limehouse, east London. He was baptised at St Anne’s, Limehouse on 6 December at which time the family lived at 121 Canal Street.

In 1911 the family were living at 154 Glengall Road in Peckham, southeast London. Nineteen-year-old Frederick worked as a ‘boy clerk’ in the Post Office. There were five other children (one had died as a young child), including William Thomas Snelling, then 16, a junior clerk for a law firm; an older brother, Charles Henry, who was a 21-year-old undergraduate at the University of London; and three sisters, Elsie Emily, 11, Ethel Mary, three, and Ethel May, nine months. Charles Henry Snr was now a timekeeper for a lock and safe company. The Snelling family later moved to 260 South Lambeth Road, Stockwell.

Frederick enlisted at Duke Street in the West End of London served in Europe from 18 March 1915 to the day of his death, 18 September 1916. 

At the time the 1939 Register was conducted, Charles and Emily Snelling were living at 44 Lansdowne Way, Stockwell with their youngest daughter, Emily May (later Bragg). Charles Snelling died in 1941 in Lambeth at the age of 76, and Emily in Folke stone, Kent in 1954, aged 87.

Brother of William Thomas Snelling and cousin of Harold Measday Snelling

Percy Hendrick Sloots

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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 was 15 and working as a telegraph messenger for the Post Office. He lived with his father, Dutch-born hairdresser George Sloots, 42, and mother Jane E. Sloots, 46, from Pimlico, and two younger brothers, Albert E. Sloots, 14, another telegraph messenger, and Reginald C. Slooots, 12, in four rooms at 86 Stockwell Road. The boys were all born in Stockwell. One other sibling had died. A boarder, Hugh Vollbrecht, a hairdresser’s assistant from Norwich lived with the family. In 1901 the family lived at 70 Stockwell Road. The Sloots had lived at that address since at least 1891 as George and Jane Sloots appear there on the census for that year.

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.

Harry (Henry) Saunders

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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 somewhat tentative, as the Henry/Harry Saunders detailed here was not living in Stockwell at the time of the census. However, it fits the known information in key points: date and place of birth, names of parents.

A Harry Saunders, then aged 15 and working as a vanboy. He lived with his parents, Henry Saunders, 48, a blacksmith from St Mary’s Redcliffe, Bristol, and Georgina Saunders, 50, from St Luke’s, east London. Harry had three surviving siblings (five having died): May Saunders, 20, a silversmith’s polisher, born in St Mary’s Haggerston, east London; Daisy Saunders, 16, a sewing machinist, born in Walworth; and James Saunders, 13, also born in St Mary’s Haggerston. The family lived at 6 Howley Place, Lambeth, where they had four rooms. The Haggerston area of east London adjoins Shoreditch.