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Francis John Kellow

11 August 2015 by SWM

F. J. Kellow
Service no. 381862
Private, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), 1st/6th Battalion, formerly 3120, London Rifle Brigade
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Died of wounds age 22 on 8 September 1918
CWGC: “Son of John George Kellow, of 14, Lingham Street, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Pernes British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918

KELLOW, F. J., Private, King’s (Liverpool Regt.)
He volunteered in November 1915, and until January 1918, when he was drafted to France, was engaged on duties of an important nature with his unit. Whilst overseas, he fought in the second Battle of the Somme, the Aisne, and the Marne, and on September 8th, 1918 he gave his life for the freedom of England at the fourth Battle of Ypres. He was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
“Thinking that remembrance, though unspoken, may reach him where he sleeps.”
14, Lingham Street, Clapham Road, S.W.9.

Information from the censuses

In 1911 14-year-old Francis John Kellow was living in a 3-roomed flat over the family shop at 12 Lingham Street, Stockwell. His father, John George Kellow, 43, was a shoemaker from Torquay, Devon; his mother, Emily Kellow, 42, was from Brixton. There were 2 siblings (only 3 of his parents’ 6 children survived):
Reginald Kellow, then 12;
Mabel Kellow, then 8.
Archibald William Chappell Kellow, 27, John’s brother, also lived with them.

In 1901 the family was living at 102 Landor Road.

Filed Under: K names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 22, DOW, France

Leonard William Jenn

11 August 2015 by SWM

L. W. Jenn
Service no. 7270
Private, London Regiment (London Scottish), 14th Battalion
Enlisted in London; lived in Brixton
Died of gunshot wounds to the abdomen at age 19 on 9 August 1916
Remembered at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Leonard Jenn, 14, was living at 7 Delverton Road, Newington South, Southwark with his mother, Annie Jenn, 37, and brother Ernest Jenn, 18, a junior clerk. Annie was born in Acton, Ernest in Harringay and Leonard in Holloway.
Information from the 1901 census

In 1901 the Jenn family lived at 33 Peacock Street, Newington. Henry Jenn, 31, was a wholesale fruit salesman, born in Islington.

Information from National Archives British Army WW1 Service Records

Before the war, Private Leonard William Jenn was a waiter. He gave the Bonnington Hotel, Southampton Row as his address when he attested at Holborn, London. He was just over 19, single and stood only 5 feet 4½ inches. He was relatively stocky for the time, his chest measuring 36 inches with 4 inches expansion.

Jenn took a gunshot wound to the abdomen on 9 August 1916 at the battle of Morlancourt. The orderlies at No 43 Casualty Clearing Station could not save him. He had lasted a mere 244 days’ service.

Jenn stated in his will that his belongings should go to his mother, Annie. They were listed: disc, letters, photos, pocket book, cigarette case, titles, lighter.

National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918

JENN, L. W., Private, 14th London Regiment (London Scottish).
Joining in March 1916, he proceeded overseas shortly afterwards and served with his Battalion during heavy fighting in the Somme sector. He died gloriously on the Field of Battle at Morlancourt in 1916, and was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
“His Life for his Country, his Soul to God.”
52, Solon Road, Acre Lane, S.W.2.

Filed Under: J names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1916, age 19, DOW, France

Samuel James

11 August 2015 by SWM

S. James
Service no. 14197
Private, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 7th Battalion
Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Stockwell
Died of wounds on 10 August 1918, aged 18
Remembered at Tincourt New British Cemetery, Somme, France

British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920

When Samuel James joined the Army he gave his next of kin as his father, also called Samuel. However, the Army form has been amended. The elder Samuel has been deleted and “Miss D. A James – sister” has been added – her 65-year-old father had died of a cerebral haemorrage on 19 October 1918, just a few weeks after his son perished in the war.

Eighteen-year-old Samuel James went missing at the Front on 30 June 1918. Later, it turned out that he had sustained a gunshot wound in his chest and been taken prisoner and that he had died on 10 August 1918 in the field hospital at Peronne.

James, who described himself as a decorator’s assistant, had signed up at Lambeth on 6 January 1917 and joined the Training Reserve of the Royal Sussex Regiment, transferring to the regular battalion on his 18th birthday, and then joining the East Kents. Standing only 5 feet 4 inches and weighing 7½ stone, with a 34-inch chest to which he could add 3 inches, his physical development as judged to be only “fair”. James committed only one recorded misdemeanour: being slack when on sentry duty at Colchester on 22 October 1917.

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Samuel James was an 11-year-old schoolboy. He lived at 37 Burgoyne Road with his parents and sister. Samuel James, 56, was a bricklayer, born at Ludchurch, Pembroke. His wife, Catherine James, 35, was born in Lambeth. They had 3 children:
Dorothy James, 13, born in Lambeth
Samuel James, 11, born in Lambeth
Catherine James, 3, born in Lambeth

Service records – died as POW (GSW)

Filed Under: J names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 18, DOW, France, pow

John S. Hymes

11 August 2015 by SWM

J. S. Hymes
Service no. 394311
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), 1st/9th Battalion
Enlisted in London; lived in Brixton
Died of wounds on 29 May 1917
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, France

In 1911 John Simpson Hymes, 29, lived at 16 Westgate Road, Dartford. He was a sales manager, born in Liverpool. His wife, Ruby Clara Hymes, 24, was born in Lambeth, and their son, John Edward Hymes, 10 months, was born in Clapham; two further children followed. The couple married at St Mark’s, Kennington in 1908.

Hymes’s widow married James F. Moore in 1919.

Filed Under: H names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1917, DOW, France

H. Hunter

11 August 2015 by SWM

There are two tentative identifications for H. Hunter – Harry Hunter and Hugh Hunter, who is named on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA. Research on this is ongoing.

H. Hunter
(Harry Hunter)
Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps
Died of wounds age 30 on 5 November 1917
CWGC: “Son of Robert and Ann Mercy Hunter, of Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

Harry Hunter, 22, was one of 5 children of Robert Hunter, 54, an organ builder born in Lambeth, and Ann Mercy Hunter, born in Stockwell. The family lived at 87 High Street, Clapham, where they had 9 rooms, with Ann Esther Hunter, 56, sister to Robert. The 5 children, all of whom were born in Clapham, were:
Alfred Robert Hunter, 25, and George Frederick Hunter, 22, organ builders like their father
Harry Hunter, 24, and Robert Moore Hunter, 19, clerks in the civil service
Mary Adeline Hunter, 14
Ada Ody, 26, a domestic servant born in Paddington, lived with the family.

Information from The Saleroom

Harry Hunter was born in 1887, second son of Robert Hunter, an organ builder who lived at 87 High Street, Clapham, London. Pre-war he was a keen motorcyclist and was selected as a goalkeeper to play for Southampton F.C. during the 1913-14 season. Recorded as a Civil Service Clerk upon his initial enlistment in the 28th Battalion, London Regiment, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. Hunter died as a result of injuries suffered whilst serving with 1 Aeroplane Supply Depot on 5 November 1917, no doubt whilst delivering much-needed aircraft to the front lines. He is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, besides being commemorated upon the Stockwell War Memorial and at Holy Trinity, Clapham Common.

Hunter is recorded in All the Saints: A Complete Players’ Who’s Who of Southampton F.C. as one of 19 members of the Club to have died during the Great War; sold with the recipient’s Royal Flying Corps cap badge, a bronze Streatham Motorcycle Prize Medal, 30mm, engraved to the reverse, ‘Members Hill Climb. April 16th 1910. Class I. 2nd. H. Hunter,’ and copied MIC and research.

Filed Under: H names, St Michael's War Shrine, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1917, age 30, DOW, France, officer

F. W. Hopkins

11 August 2015 by SWM

F. W. Hopkins
Service no. 55321
Private, Welsh Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Formerly 31166, the King’s Own Shropshire Light Infantry
Died of wounds 22 September 1918, aged about 36
Buried at Brie Cemetery, Somme, France (grave I C 9)

Remembered at Stockwell War Memorial and on a wooden memorial plaque at Westminster Abbey, London, where he worked as a plumber (information from L. Hopkins, great-grandson)

Research contributed by Marietta Crichton Stuart

Hopkins’ Medal Index card names him as Frederick Hopkins and shows that he was eligible for the Victory and British Medals.

Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as Private Frederick William Hopkins, born in Lambeth, residence Walworth, Middx (sic), Enlisted Kensington, Middx (sic), Private, Welsh Regiment, 2nd Battalion, number 55321, died of wounds, theatre of war Western European Theatre, comments formerly 31166, Shropshire LI.

The CWGC entry gives no family details.

Frederick William Hopkins was born between April and June 1882 in Lambeth. He was the son of William and Mary Ann Hopkins nee Rayner. The family was living at 4 China Walk in North Lambeth and William worked as a wine cellarman. They had three daughters: Mabel, Alice and Florence. William died in 1888.

On the 1891 census, Mary Hopkins is a widow, working as a charwoman and living with her son Frederick and three daughters at 15 Union Street in North Lambeth.

Between October and December 1901 when he was 20, Frederick married Nellie Eliza L. Walker.

Nellie Walker was born in December 1881, the daughter of William and Louisa Walker (nee Dixon) who had married at St Philip’s Lambeth. Her father was a Nottingham born iron turner. When Nellie was baptised on 5 March 1882 in the parish of Emmanuel, Surrey, the family’s address was given as 120 Vauxhall Terrace and her father’s occupation was an engineer.

On the 1891 census Nellie was living with her parents at 55 Stockwell Green and her four brothers: William 5, Robert 4, Horace 2 and Alfred 2 months and one sister, Louisa aged 5. Four of the children were Lambeth-born and two were born in Southwark.

On the 1901 census Nellie Walker was living in 33 Villa Road and working as a general servant (domestic). This was the home of Marion Butler, 58, a boarding-house keeper, with three boarders, Henrietta Mark (living on own means), Alfred A C ?Suggate, a widower who was a civil engineer, and John Baddley, a ?drapery warehouseman (employer).

Nellie and Frederick Hopkins were married October-December 1901 and their first child, Dorothy Amelia, was born on 2 November that year. When Dorothy was baptised at St Mary’s the Less, Princes Road on 19 February the following year, the family was living at 63 Fitzalan Street in Kennington and Frederick was working as a plumber.

Their son Frederick William (Junior) was born in 1904 and a second daughter, Nellie Ethel, in 1908. All three Hopkins children were born in Lambeth.

On the 1911 census the family was living at 31 Upper Kennington Lane. Frederick was now 29 and working as a plumber/journeyman in the building trade. Nellie was 28, Dorothy 9, Frederick 7 and Nellie 2.

Frederick’s army records do not appear to have survived for either the Shropshire Light Infantry or the Welsh Regiment. His entry on Soldiers died says he enlisted in Kensington. The 2nd Battalion Welsh regiment was a regular battalion, and  it is possible that Frederick was in one of the territorial battalions of the 2nd.

As he was ineligible for either a 1914 or 1915 star medal, the assumption is that Frederick entered a theatre of war in 1916. In September 1918 the 2nd Welsh were part of the 1st Division who fought in the Battle of Epehy during what was later known as the Advance to Victory. By 19 September the Division had been unable to capture either the fortified village of Fresnoy le Petit or the mass of trenches known as the Quadrilateral and the Corps Commander decided to bombard these two strong positions before renewing the attack on 24 September. It is possible that it was during this fighting that Frederick was wounded. He may have been taken to one of the casualty clearing stations near Brie and subsequently died of his wounds. He was then buried in Brie Cemetery.

Fifty years later, his widow, Nellie E. Hopkins, died in Lambeth during the winter of 1967. She was 85.

Filed Under: H names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 36, DOW, France

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