T. E. RossService no. R/6733Able Seaman, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hood Battalion R.N. Div.Died on 29 September 1918, aged 24 (missing, later reported killed in action or died of wounds)Next-of-kin & home address: Wife, Emily [née Brown], 56 South Island Place, Clapham Road, Clapham, London SW9.Service history: Army Reserve 24 June 1916Entered 29 April 1918Draft […]
Alfred Roskilly
A. RoskillySecond Lieutenant, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 7th BattalionKilled in action age 26 on 3 May 1917CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs A. J. Roskilly, of 96, Stockwell Park Road, London; husband of Ruth Roskilly, of 16, Briarwood Road, Clapham Park, London.”Remembered at Arras Memorial, France and at St John’s Church, Clapham Road, London […]
Sydney (or Sidney) Herbert Rogers
S. RogersPrivate, Middlesex Regiment, 1st Bn. Service no. G/43526. Died on 23 October 1918, aged 32. Remembered at Remembered at Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Chris Burge writes: Sydney (aka Sidney) Herbert Rogers was born in Lambeth in 1886 and baptised at All Saints, South Lambeth on 24 October 1886. His parents, William and […]
Joseph Rogers
J. RogersPrivate, Hampshire Regiment, 2nd Bn. Service no. 27971Died on 6 May 1918, aged about 22.Remembered at Remembered at Cinq Rues British Cemetery, Hazebrouck, Nord, France Chris Burge writes: Joseph Rogers, born in Lambeth in 1896, was the youngest of six siblings. He was baptised together with his two-year-old brother Edward on 16 December at […]
Alfred Rodgers or Rogers
A. Rodgers (on the memorial as Rodgers, in the Commonwealth War Memorial database as Rogers)Private, East Surrey Regiment, 1st Bn. Service no. 11158 Killed in action on 25 September 1916, aged 21Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France Chris Burge writes: Alfred Rodgers was born in November 1894 in Pimlico on the north side of the […]
Robert Harry Roberts
R. H. RobertsService no. G/22229Private, Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st/4th BattalionDied on 7 August 1918, aged about 19Remembered at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France, and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census Robert Harry Roberts was a 12-year-old schoolboy in 1911. He lived at 21 Cottage Grove, Stockwell with his […]
George Rixton
G. RixtonService no. 3483Sapper, Royal Engineers, 2nd/1st Lowland Field Coy.Born in Maiden Newton; enlisted in Victoria Park, east London; lived in Weymouth, DorsetKilled in action on 16 September 1916, aged 32CWGC: “Son of Robert and Annie Rixton, of 14, Victoria Rd., Dorchester.”Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France Information from the censuses In 1911 George Rixton, then […]
Norman Victor Riva
N.V. RivaService no. 1891Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 2nd BattalionBorn in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in LambethKilled in action on 31 March 1915, aged 18CWGC: “Son of Mr E. Riva, of 46 Priory Grove, South Lambeth, London.”Remembered at Ferme Buterne Military Cemetery, Houplines, France Information from the censuses Norman Riva, 14 in 1911, was […]
Reginald Parnham Ridley
R. P. Ridley Service no. 589 Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), 16th Battalion Killed in action on 23 September 1916, aged 23 Born in Clapham; enlisted at Westminster; lived in Clapham CWGC: “Son of Frederick William Ridley, of 420 Clapham Road, Clapham, London.” Remembered at Delville Wood Cemetery, Longeuval, France, at St John’s Church, […]
Everard Vaughan Ridge
E. V. RidgeLieutenant, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 153rd Coy.Died on 9 April 1917, aged 21CWGC: “Son of the late Edward H. Ridge, of 15, Bedford Row, High Holborn, London.”Remembered at Arras Memorial, France and at St John’s Church, Clapham Road, London SW9 Everard Vaughan Ridge attested for service in the Territorial Force on 13 April […]