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Henry Thomas Moss

13 August 2015 by SWM

H. T. Moss
Service no. 70863
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, 46th Anti-Aircraft Bty.; formerly 42343, Royal Field Artillery, and 22851, 3rd Gloucester Regiment
Died on 28 October 1917 at age 46 (theatre of war is given as “home”)
Born at Gosport; enlisted at Lambeth
CWGC: “Son of Henry and Jane Moss; husband of Elizabeth Alice Moss, of 114 Stockwell Road, London.”
Remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Blackshaw Road, Tooting

Father of Henry Louis Moss (their names are, uniquely, listed side by side).

Information from the 1911 census

Henry Thomas Moss, 40, born in Gosport, Hampshire, was the father of 12 children (11 surviving and nine named on the census). He and Elizabeth Alice Moss, 38, from Southwark, south London, lived with their children in 9 rooms at 114 Stockwell Road.
Henry Louis Moss, 19, a goldsmith, born in Walworth
Amy Elizabeth Moss, 18, a dressmaker, born in Kennington
Elsie Moss, 17, a tailoress, born in Chelsea
Louis Masterson Moss, 15, an errand boy, born in Camberwell
William Alfred Moss, 14, a district messenger boy, born in Southwark
Elizabeth Alice Moss, 13, born in Southwark
Bertie Thomas Moss, 9, born in Southwark

Filed Under: M names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1917, age 46, Died, Lambeth

Thomas Henry Mizen

13 August 2015 by SWM

natal
The Natal

T. H. Mizen
Service no. 202018
Able Seaman, Royal Navy, H.M.S. “Natal”
Died 30 December 1915 aged around 32
Remembered at Chatham Naval Memorial and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9

The Natal was a Duke of Edinburgh class armoured cruiser, built by Vickers Maxim of Barrow and launched on 30 September 1905. She was sunk by an internal explosion near Cromarty on 30 December 1915.

Information from Wikipedia:

On the 30th December 1915 Natal was lying in the Cromarty Firth with her squadron, under the command of Captain Eric Back RN. Shortly after 3.20pm, and without warning, a series of violent explosions tore through the ship. She capsized five minutes later. The most probable explanation was that a fire had broken out, possibly due to faulty cordite, that ignited a magazine. The exact number of casualties is still debated, and ranges from 390, up to 421. Some were killed in the immediate explosions, others drowned as the ship capsized, or succumbed to the freezing water of the Cromarty Firth. Most of the bodies which were recovered from the sea were interred in Rosskeen Churchyard, Invergordon. A small number of casualties were interred in the Gaelic Chapel graveyard in Cromarty.
The picture shows her upturned hull, visible at low water.
There is an interesting thread about the explosion at www.black-isle.info

Thomas Henry Mizen was born on 25 January 1883 in Brixton to Albert Duncan Mizen and Emma Amelia Turner. Thomas is listed on the 1891 census as visiting with his father, a carman, and younger sister at 38 Ingleton Street, Stockwell. In 1904, at St Paul’s, Lorrimore Square, Walworth (Southwark) Thomas married his first cousin Edith Miriam Payne.

The couple had six daughters (five surviving):

Doris Hetty, born 1905
Elsie, born 1906
Edith Miriam, born 1908
Alice Frances, born 1909
Helen Elizabeth, born 1912
Grace Henrietta, born 1912, died 1913

At the time of Thomas Mizen’s death his family address was recorded as 7 Moat Place, Stockwell Road. Edith died in 1929.

Filed Under: M names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1915, age 32, Died, naval

Frederick Edward Milnes

13 August 2015 by SWM

F. E. Milnes
Service no. 917
Private, 12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers
Born in Kennington; enlisted in London; lived in Lambeth
Died on 24 June 1918 aged 28
CWGC: “Son of Frederick and Annie Louisa Milnes, of 3 Albert Mansions, South Lambeth Road, London.”
Remembered at Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany
In 1922–23 it was decided that the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who had died all over Germany should be brought together into four permanent cemeteries. Berlin South-Western was one of those chosen and in 1924-25, graves were brought into the cemetery from more than 140 burial grounds in eastern Germany.

Brother of William Alexander Milnes.

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Frederick Milnes, 22 and single, was serving as a private with the 12 Royal Lancers in Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa.

Information from the 1901 census

In 1901 the Milnes family were living at 30 Smeaton Road, Wandsworth. Frederick Milnes senior was probably registered elsewhere on the night of the census, as he does not appear on the listing. Annie Milnes, 37, was born in Easton Square. Her children at the time were:
Frederick Milnes, 12, born in Kennington
William Milnes, 8, born in New Cross
Florrie Milnes, 6, born in Camberwell
John Milnes, 1, born in Southfields

Filed Under: M names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 28, Died, Germany, pow

William Arthur Alfred Mills

13 August 2015 by SWM

W. A. Mills
Service no. 30986
Private, Devonshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth
Died on 30 May 1918 aged 19
CWGC: “Son of William Hugh and Laura Ellen Mills, of 8, Tradescant Rd, South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Chambrecy British Cemetery, France

Information from the 1911 census

William Arthur Alfred Mills was 12 in 1911. He lived with his parents and sisters at 8 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth, where they occupied four rooms. William Hugh Mills, 49, was a railway porter from Islington, north London. Laura Mills, 46, was from Bermondsey. They had three children: Maude Mills, 16, a book folder born in Bethnal Green; William Mills, 12, born in South Lambeth; Alice Mills, 7, born in South Lambeth.

Filed Under: M names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 19, Died, France

Ernest John Milborrow

13 August 2015 by SWM

E. J. Milborrow
Service no. 93005
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 17th Bty. 83rd Bde
Enlisted in Brixton; lived in Stockwell
Died on 11 July 1918 aged 28
CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs E. Milborrow, of 83, Hargwyne Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at St Souplet British Cemetery, Nord, France

British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920

In 1911, Ernest John Milborrow, 20, was an unemployed laundry warehouseman, living with his parents and six of his seven siblings in four rooms at 83 Hargwyne Street, Stockwell.  His father, Ernest Alfred, 43, a silk tie cutter, and his mother, 45, were both born in Lambeth.

Ernest Milborrow’s service history has not survived but those for his brothers William and Arthur Milborrow have. They both joined the Royal Field Artillery, 162nd (Howitzer) Brigade in Camberwell on the same day, 27 March 1916, and were given adjacent Service numbers.

William (L13105), aged 23 and working as a butcher when he enlisted, rose through the ranks and was demobbed in 1920 as a Serjeant. His career included two disciplinary issues. He was reprimanded in October 1915 for insubordinate conduct to an officer and again in July 1918 for absence from parade. His medical history included having his infected teeth removed (November 1915) and inoculations against typhoid. He caught flu in March 1919, just at the start of the pandemic. He was 5 feet 5¾ inches tall.

Arthur Thomas (L13106) described himself as a bank messenger, and was 19 when he enlisted. He was demobbed as a driver in 1919. He was disciplined in February 1917 for being absent from parade, and in March 1918 for going absent from leave for one day. He was hospitalised for two days with diarrhoea and for eight with a sprained foot (“nothing found,” said the doctors). He was 5 feet 3 inches tall.

Information from the censuses

In 1911, Ernest John Milborrow, 20, was an unemployed laundry warehouseman, living in four rooms at 83 Hargwyne Street, Stockwell (where they had been since at least 1901), with his parents and siblings. All nine children (eight of whom are on the census) and the parents were Lambeth-born:
Ernest Alfred Milborrow, 43, a silk tie cutter
Ellen Milborrow, 45
Ernest John Milborrow, 20
Willie (William) Milborrow, 19, a butcher’s roundsman (employed to make rounds or deliveries)
Nellie Elizabeth Milborrow, 14
Arthur Thomas Milborrow, 12, at school and working as a newsboy
Elsie Phoebe Milborrow, 11
Edith Milborrow, 9
Edward Milborrow, 6
George Milborrow, 2

 

Filed Under: M names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 29, Died, France

Thomas Percy Messenger

13 August 2015 by SWM

T. P. Messenger
Service no. 202245
Lance Corporal, London Regiment, 1st/1st Battalion
Died on 28 May 1918 aged 22
Remembered at Soissons Memorial, France

Information from the censuses

Thomas Percy Messenger, a 15-year-old grocer’s errand boy, lived at 46 Horace Street, Stockwell, where his family occupied four rooms. His father, John Messenger, 56, a wood and coal merchant from Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, and mother Elizabeth Messenger, 52, from Blackheath, south-east London, had 13 children, all of whom survived. Five were listed on the census:
Thomas Messenger, 15
Jane Messenger, 13
Cecil Messenger, 11
[Indecipherable] Messenger, 9 -see  below
Walter Messenger, 3
All were born in South Lambeth.
In 1901 the family lived at 4 Assaye Street, Lambeth.

Messenger, Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy Messenger’s death certificate

Information from Lin Marshall (née Messenger) – via email 6 December 2010

Regarding your entry for THOMAS PERCY MESSENGER, who was my great uncle, the name which you have listed as indecipherable is VICTOR.

I am a genealogist researching both my father’s and mother’s families.  I don’t know if the following is of interest to you, but I must tell you that I was overjoyed to see Tom included in your book.  I have informed all the Messenger relatives with whom I am in touch, and they are equally overjoyed. Though my great grandfather John has recorded on the 1911 Census record which you have quoted, that his wife Elizabeth (known as Lizzie) was born in Blackheath, actually she wasn’t!  She was born in Greenwich at 1 Luton Place, but was baptised in Collingbourne Kingston, Wiltshire, where her family lived and she grew up.  John Messenger was born in Inglesham, Wiltshire, not Ashton Keynes as he stated on the 1911 Census.  My great grandfather actually did not know where he was born, and usually said Cricklade! His family moved to Marlborough from where John walked through the Savernake Forest to court his Lizzie (nee Goddard)!

This is the entry I have in my family history for Thomas Messenger:

Thomas (Tom) Percy Messenger. Tom was born in Lambeth in 1895 (Civil Register: September quarter 1895, Lambeth, vol 1d, page 461).  He was baptised on 5th September 1895 at St Anne’s, South Lambeth.  On the 1911 Census, he was recorded by his father as living at home aged 15, an errand boy for a grocer.  He became a chef, then joined the First Battalion of the London Regiment during World War 1 and went to France.   He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal and, at the time of his death, had attained the rank of Lance Corporal.  He went missing, presumed dead, on 28.05.1918 when only 22 years old. His name is recorded on the Stockwell Memorial.

messengerbirth
The baptismal record for Thomas Percy Messenger on 5 September 1895 at St Anne’s, South Lambeth.

Lin Marshall nee Messenger) discovered that Tom’s name was not included on the War Graves Commission’s Roll of Honour on the Internet and wrote asking to have it included, furnishing the necessary documentation as proof.  After some months, she was notified that all the records had been checked and he was now included, and also that his name was to be added to the memorial at Soissons in France, the memorial closest to where he had fallen.”

Filed Under: M names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 22, Died, France

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