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KIA

Arthur Edward Ingram

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A. E. Ingram
Service no. 8804
Private, Worcestershire Regiment, 3rd Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 7 November 1914
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

The National Roll of the Great War gives the following entry for Arthur Edward Ingram:

‘He volunteered and proceeded to France at the outbreak of war, and fought in the Retreat of Mons, and at the Battles of Le Cateau, the Aisne and the Marne. He gave his life for the freedom of England on November 7th, 1914, in the first Battle of Ypres, and was entitled to the Mons Star and the General Service and Victory Medals.’

His address was given as 56 Dalyell Road, Landor Road, SW9. was born in Lambeth and lived in Clapham. 

Arthur Edward was born in 1887 in Lambeth, the middle child of Arthur Ingram, a carman who worked for Clapham & Battersea Borough Council, and Emma. There were two other children. In 1911 Arthur’s parents and their oldest son William lived at 30 Pensbury Street along with a lodger. We have not yet located Arthur Edward on the census for that year.

Albert Young Hutchinson

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A. Y. Hutchinson
Service no. 16206
Private, 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars
Born at Haggerston, London; enlisted at Lambeth; lived at Dalston
Killed in action at age 39 on 24 October 1914
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

In 1911 Albert Young Hutchinson, who was born in Haggerston, east London in 1875, was living in one room at 24 Tasman Road, Stockwell. He was 36, single, and working as a goods receiving clerk. The Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects states that he enlisted on 28 August 1914 and died at Zillebeke.

Albert’s father John W. Hutchinson was a cabinet maker born in Surrey, his mother Mary Ann Young, who died in January 1911, was from Pentonville, north London. Albert had twelve siblings.

In 1911 Albert Young Hutchinson was living in one room at 24 Tasman Road, Stockwell. He was 36, single, and working as a goods receiving clerk. He was born at Haggerston, east London.

Frank Morley Huntley

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F. M. Huntley
Service no. 393151
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), 1st/9th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Camberwell; lived in Clapham
Killed in action aged 39 on 3 May 1917
CWGC: “Husband of Fanny Beatrice Huntley, of 90, Portland Place N, Clapham Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

Frank Morley Huntley, 32 and born in Kennington, was a bookseller. In 1911 he lived with his wife and 4 children at 10 St Stephens Terrace, South Lambeth. Fanny B. Huntley, 29, was born in Kennington.
Their children were
Frank I. W. Huntley, 8
Helen B. Huntley, 5
Winifred Huntley, 3
Constance M. Huntley, 10 months
Stanley G. Stephenson, 24, a single civil servant from Canterbury, boarded with the family.

William Berks Hudson

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W. B. Hudson
Service no. 4015
Rifleman, London Regiment (City of London Rifles), “A” Coy. 6th Battalion
Born in South Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action age 27 on 8 October 1916
CWGC: “Son of John Robert and Matilda Hudson, of 24 Chantrey Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

Ledger clerk William Berks Hudson, 22, lived with his widowed mother and his aunt at 24 Chantrey Road, Brixton. Matilda Hudson, 50, and her single sister Elizabeth Anne Berks, both worked as a draper’s assistants. They were born in Newcastle, Staffordshire. William was an only child.