Stockwell War Memorial

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Richard James Marshall

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R. J. Marshall
Service no. L/40226
Serjeant, Royal Field Artillery, “B” Bty. 186th Bde.
Born in Clapham; enlisted at Camberwell
Killed in action at age 45 on 24 March 1918
CWGC: “Husband of Charlotte Jane Marshall, of 22 Love Lane, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Pozieres Memorial, France and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA

Information from the 1911 census

Richard James Marshall, 39 in 1911, was a commercial coachman. He was born in Clapham and lived with his wife Waterloo-born Charlotte Jane Marshall, 39 at 6 Eastcote Street, Stockwell, where they had 4 rooms. They had 2 surviving children (of 3): Dorothy Ena Marshall, 2, born in Clapham; Gladys Edith Marshall, 3, born in Stockwell.

Charles Thomas Markham

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C. T. Markham
Service no. 232431
Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 2nd Battalion, also Royal Fusiliers, attd. 7th Battalion
Born in Wandsworth; enlisted in Clapham; lived in Lambeth
Killed in action on 6 April 1918, aged 21
Remembered at Pozieres Memorial, France

Charles Thomas Markham (courtesy of Pat Norris)

Information from the 1911 census

This identification is somewhat tentative. We do not have a year of birth for Charles Thomas Markham.
In 1911 a Charles Markham, born in Wandsworth, was living at 75a Ellerslie Road, Clapham. He was 16 and working as a grocer’s shop assistant. The household included his father, William Markham, 46, a carpenter and joiner from Framingham, Suffolk, and his mother, Mary Ann Markham, 45, from Holburn, London. They had had 8 children, 6 surviving. Apart from Charles there were 3 children living at home: Jessie Markham, 12, born in Stockwell; Sidney Markham, 7, born in Clapham; and Stanley Markham, 4, born in Stockwell.

Roderick Emile Leadbetter MacKenzie

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R. E. L. MacKenzie
Service no. 14/42565
Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles, 14th Battalion, formerly R/35035, King’s Royal Rifles
Born in Wimbledon; enlisted in London; lived in Lambeth
Killed in action on 2 September 1917 at age 19
CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs James L. MacKenzie of 10 Atherfold Road, Stockwell, London. Born at Wimbledon, London.”
Remembered at Hermies British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

Brother of Osmond MacKenzie.

Osmond McKenzie

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O. J. L. Mackenzie
Service no. 1662
Rifleman, London Regiment (City of London Rifles), 1st/6th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Killed in action at age 19 on 15 September 1916
CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs James L. MacKenzie, of 10 Atherfold Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France

Brother of Roderick MacKenzie

Information from the censuses

In 1911 Osmond MacKenzie, 13, lived with his large family in 5 rooms at 10 Atherfold Road. James Leadbetter MacKenzie, 41, from Edinburgh, was a journalist. His wife, Kate MacKenzie, 41, was from Inverness. They  had 9 surviving children (1 died) – 8 sons and a daughter:
Edymion MacKenzie, 16, a woodcarving student, born in Edinburgh
Julian MacKenzie, 14, an architect’s apprentice, born in Edinburgh
Osmond MacKenzie, 13, born in Lambeth
Roderick MacKenzie, 12, born in Wimbledon
Athol MacKenzie, 9, born in Lambeth
Alasdhair MacKenzie, 7, born in Lambeth
Donald MacKenzie, 5, born in Lambeth
Quentin MacKenzie, 2, born in Lambeth
Natalie Syliva MacKenzie, 1

In 1901 the MacKenzie family lived at 10 Hemberton Road (adjacent to Atherfold Road). Maggie Grant, 19, Kate’s sister, lived with them. On the night of the census, John Carl Lyte, 39, an actor, was staying in the house as a visitor.

Arthur George Luckhurst

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A. G. Luckhurst
Service no. 70071
Private, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 6th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted at Kingston; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 23 August 1918 at age 19
CWGC: “Son of Mrs. Bearman, of 31, Union Street, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Meaulte Military Cemetery, France

Information from the censuses

Arthur George Luckhurst lived at 31 Union Street for all his short life. He is found on the 1901 census at age one, living with his father, another Arthur G. Luckhurst, 30, a bricklayer’s labourer born in Lambeth, and mother Elizabeth Luckhurst, 28, born in Clapham. The household was headed by Elizabeth’s father, Francis S. Fornes, 60, a widower and brewer’s labourer born in Lambeth. The younger Arthur had an older sister, Violet, 4.

Arthur is found on the 1911 aged 12. He lived with his widowed mother Elizabeth, who was working as a charwoman, and sister  Violet, 14. In 1911 the family occupied 2 rooms. From the CWGC entry, we can surmise that Elizabeth remarried some time after 1911, becoming Mrs Bearman.