E. J. Jarvis
Service no. L/43916
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 46th Bty.
Born in Clapham; enlisted at Camberwell
Killed in action on 19 July 1916
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France
France
Samuel James
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)
William Henry Jackson
W. H. Jackson
Service no. 9011
Private, Middlesex Regiment, “D” Coy. 4th Battalion
Born in Paddington; lived in Hounslow
Killed in action age 28 on 15 October 1914
CWGC: “Husband of Ethel May Jackson, of 3 Seneca Road, Sandmere Road, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacouture, France
Edward Thomas Henry Jackson
E. T. H. Jackson
Service no. S/26110
Rifleman, Rifle Brigade, 9th Battalion
Killed in action on 3 May 1917, aged 34.
CWGC: “Son of Edward and Annie Jackson, of 35 Chertsey Street, Church Lane, Tooting; husband of Emily Jackson, of 37 Romney Buildings, Millbank, Westminster, London.”
Remembered at Arras Memorial, France
Arthur Ireland
A. Ireland
Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles, 15th Battalion
formerly 6822, London Regiment
Born in Peckham; enlisted in Wandsworth; lived in Brixton
Killed in action on 22 November 1917
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Arthur Ireland was born in Peckham and lived in Brixton. He enlisted in Wandsworth. His death was ‘presumed’ meaning that he was one of the 700,000 whose remains were never recovered. His name is included in Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914–1918.
John S. Hymes
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.