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Alfred William Newcombe

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Alfred William Newcombe
Alfred William Newcombe. Photo © Richard Jones

A. W. Newcombe
Service no. 33465
Private, Bedfordshire Regiment, 8th Battalion
Born at Marylebone; enlisted at Bedford; lived at Watford, Hertfordshire
Killed in action on 27 June 1917, aged 23
Son of William Newcombe, of 96 Southville, Clapham Common, London.
Remembered at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France

Information from the 1911 census
Alfred Newcombe, 17, worked as a grocer’s assistant and lived at 89 Priory Grove, where his family occupied four rooms. William Newcombe, his 42-year-old father, was a labourer from Wembworthy, North Devon; his mother, Betsy Eady, 43, was from Peterborough. Alfred’s sister, Maud Newcombe, 16, born in Clapham, worked in a factory.

Information from the William Alfred Newcombe’s family
Newcombe was born on 14 September 1893 at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Marylebone Road to Betsy Eady, a night light maker of 98 South Ville, off Wandsworth Road. Newcombe was born William Alfred Eady. His mother married William Newcombe on Christmas Day 1893 and he appears to have taken that name.
Newcombe was always known as ‘Alf’.

Frank Naish

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F. Naish
Service no. 37514
Private, Wiltshire Regiment, 1st Battalion, formerly 7371, Royal Berkshire Yeomanry
Born in Lambeth; lived in Clapham
Killed in action 18 September 1918, aged about 24
Remembered at Targelle Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Guislain, France

Information from the 1911 census

A tentative identification. This Frank Naish is the only one listed for Lambeth. In 1911 17-year-old Frank Naish lived at 3 Belgrave Terrace, Brixton. He was one of five children of Francis Naish, 46, who worked in a carriers department and was born in Castle Cary, Somerset, and Clara Naish, 45, from Jersey. The children were John Naish, 21, a leather cutter; Frank Naish; Dorothy Naish, 18, a milliner; Robert Naish, 15, a messenger; Evelyn Naish, 11. All were born in Brixton. There were two lodgers: Emily Payne, 44, a single cook, and Beatrice Payne, 43, a single nurse, both from Rotherhithe, south-east London.

Henry Louis Frederick Bonnetaut Nadaud

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H. L. F. B. Nadaud
Major, London Regiment, 24th (County of London) Battalion (The Queen’s)
Killed in action at age 39 on 21 March 1918
Son of the late Mr L. B. Nadaud and of Mrs L. B. Nadaud, of 100 Lansdowne Road, London, SW8.
Remembered at Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-Le-Grand, France; at Westminster Cathedral; at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Clapham

Henry Nadaud is remembered on the memorial at the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral, London

Information from 47 Division, 142 Infantry Brigade war diaries: 24th Battalion London Regiment (The Queens), 1915 Mar. – 1919 May (available from National Archives)
Thursday 21st [March, 1918]
Heavy enemy bombardment and many gas shells – opens about 3a.m.  6a.m. Battalion to [?].  7a.m. move up through barrage to 2nd Defence System (about Q. 17. a and c.) “A” and “B” font line – “C” and “D” support. In position about noon.
Casualties in METZ and moving up :- Lt. Col. G. E. Millner, D.S.O., M.C., Wounded – Major Nadaud, Killed – Lieut H. S. Mitchell, Killed. – 2/Lieut G. B. Poland, Killed. R.S.M., H.W. Norris D.C.M., Killed. Major T.O. Bury assumes command.
Remainder of day we work on trenches. Raids reported on our Divisional Front but attacks on flanks to north and south.

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Friday 22nd [March, 1918]
Fairly quiet day. Consolidating our positions. 2/Lieut H. Whitehead to Depot for course.
2/Lieut D/O’Kell to Depot as T.O. 2/Lieut A. C. Bean from Depot reports for duty.
Transport at EQUANCOURT. Bodies of Major. H.L.F.B. Nadaud and 2/Lieut G. B. Poland buried in civilian cemetery.
Midnight. – Front lines retire through us.

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Henry Nadaud, then aged 32, lived at 100 Lansdowne Road with his parents, Louis Nadaud, 59, a retired civil servant, born in Soho, and Marie Nadaud, 53, whose birthplace is described as “France Resident”, his brother Charles Nadaud, 28, an electrical engineer, and aunt, Theresa Nadaud, 57, born in Soho. Henry is described as a bank clerk for the London Joint Stock company and he and his brother were born in “London, Surrey”, which may mean Lambeth. Maud Gough, a 22-year-old single domestic servant from Portsmouth, lived in.
Information from the 1901 census
Henry (listed as Henri) Louis Nadaud is listed on the census at Dover as a 22-year-old single passenger on the  Empress Mail Steamer, a banker’s clerk born in London.

William Lawrence Murray

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W. L. Murray
Service no. 2251
Rifleman, London Regiment (City of London Rifles), 6th Battalion
Killed in action on 25 September 1915 at age 21
CWGC: “Son of Alec and Elizabeth Alice Murray, of 37, Kay Rd., Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 William Lawrence Murray was a junior clerk working for the Amalgamated Press and living in a three-roomed apartment at 15 Rhodesia Road, Stockwell. The census return included William and his mother, Elizabeth Alice Murray, 44, born in St Giles in the Fields, London. Alec Murray is not on the return.

Alfred George Murphy

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A. G. Murphy
Service no. 126952
Private, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 203rd Coy.; formerly 21886, Bedfordshire Regiment*
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth
Died on 29 March 1918 at age 19
CWGC: “Son of Mrs Alice Mary Murphy, of 2 Victoria Place, Priory Grove, South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France

National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918

MURPHY, A. G., Pte., Devonshire Regt.* and M.G.C.
He joined in February 1917, and was later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, with which unit he proceeded to the Western Front in the following year. After only a short period of active service, he made the supreme sacrifice, being killed in action on March 29th, 1918. He was entitled to the General Service and Victory Medals.
“He passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice.”
2, Victoria Place, Priory Grove, S.W.8.
*Discrepancy between the National Roll and Soldiers Died in the Great War

Information from the 1911 census

Alfred George Murphy was a 12-year-old schoolboy in 1911. He lived with his parents and siblings in 5 rooms at 6 Priory Grove. He was one of 7 children. Walter Robert John Murphy, 39, was a butcher from Westminster; Alice Mary Murphy, 37, was also from Westminster.
Walter John Robert Murphy, 16, was an errand boy
Charles Thomas Murphy, 15, was a milkboy
Frederick William Murphy, 13
Alfred George, 12
Harold Edward Murphy, 10
Alice Mary Murphy, 8
John Murphy, 6

Hubert Mullett

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H. Mullett
Service no. 11626
Private, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 11th Battalion
Died on 10 August 1917 aged about 25
CWGC: “Son of Mr J. E. Mullett, of 101 Stockwell Park Road, Brixton, London.”
Remembered at Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, France and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA

Information from the 1911 census
Hubert Mullett, 19, a clerk, lived at 101 Stockwell Park Road, an 8-roomed house. His father, James Edwin Mullett, 60, was an architect from Camberwell. His mother, Alice Mullett, 51, was from Marylebone. There were seven children (two siblings had died):
Edwin Mullett, 26, a clerk for the Author’s Society, born in Westminster
Maurice Mullett, 24, a clerk for an insurance company, born in Westminster
Hubert Mullett, 19, a clerk for an engineering company, born in Lambeth
Allen Mullett, 16, a solicitor’s clerk, born in Lambeth
Christine Mullett, 22, a teacher for London County Council, born in the Strand
Helena Mullett, 21, no occupation, born in the Strand
In 1901 the Mullets were living at 218 Wandsworth Road. The 1901 census includes Guy Mullett, then 18, was working as a surveyor’s assistant; born in Westminster.