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KIA

David James Thomas Hibbert

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D. J. T. Hibbert
Service no. 57427
Lance Corporal, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 1st Battalion
Born in Walworth; enlisted in Hounslow
Killed in action age 24 on 3 May 1918
CWGC: “Son of Mr D. C. J. and Mrs S. M. Hibbert, of 17 Horace Street, Wilcox Road, South Lambeth, London.”
Remembered at Giavera Memorial, Italy

Information from the 1911 census

The Hibbert family lived in 2 rooms at 126 Dorset Road. David Charles James Hibbert, 45, was a gas fitter. He was born in Walworth. Susannah Maria Hibbert, 41, was born in Southwark. They had 3 sons:
David James Thomas Hibbert, 16, an errand boy, born in Walworth
Stanley Arthur HIbbert, 11, born in Lambeth
Walter Henry, 6, born in Thornton Heath

Andrew Herriott

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A. Herriott
Service no. 470471
Lance Corporal, London Regiment (The Rangers), 12th Battalion
Enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 24 August 1918, aged 21
Remembered at Bray Hill British Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme, France

Brother of John Herriott and Archibald Herriott

Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 the Herriott family, 3 of whose sons are on the memorial, lived at 27 Gateley Road, Brixton, where they had 7 rooms. John Herriott, 51, was an electrical engineer from Berwick-upon-Tweed. Mary Herriott, 51, was from Edinburgh. They had 8 children, all surviving in 1911. Six lived at home:
George Hope Herriott, 22, a milkman
May Herriott, 20, a dressmaker
John Herriott, 18, an electrician
Archibald Herriott, 16, a bookseller’s assistant
Andrew Herriott, 14
Isabel Lenore Herriott, 9
All were born in Ponders End, Middlesex.
There was also a boarder, Lillian Eliza Ellery, a 25-year-old married assistant to a wool manufacturer, from Poplar, east London.

Richard Charles Heath

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R. C. Heath
Service no. 42295
Private, Hertfordshire Regiment, 1st/1st Battalion, formerly 242378, South Staffordshire Regiment
Born in Farnborough, Hampshire; enlisted in Camberwell; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action 4 November 1918
Remembered at Ghissignies British Cemetery, Nord, France

On 8 July 1914 Richard Charles Heath, a licensed victualler, married Mary Elsie Redshaw at All Saints, Stoke Newington in north London. Their daughter Elsie Maud was born in March the following year. 

Heath was born in Farnborough, Hampshire on 16 March 1892. He moved to London and is listed in the 1911 census as a barman at The Albion, 2–3 New Bridge Street in the City of London. and lived in Stockwell. He enlisted in Camberwell.

At the time of his death his family lived at 76 Studley Road, Stockwell. Mary died in 1985, and Elsie in 2004, both in Penzance, Cornwall.

William Alfred Haynes

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W. A. Haynes
Service no. 12374
Lance Corporal, Bedfordshire Regiment, 4th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Lambeth
Killed in action 30 October 1917
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, near Ypres, Belgium

A tentative identification, awaiting more supporting evidence.

Robert Charles Hayes

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R. C. Hayes
Service no. G/14909
Lance Corporal, Middlesex Regiment, 20th Battalion
Killed in action age 24 on 30 July 1916
CWGC: “Son of Robert Charles and Emily Kate Hayes, of 33, Hargwyne St., Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 the Hayes family lived at 33 Hargwyne Street, Stockwell, where they occupied 3 rooms. Robert Charles Hayes (Senior), 41, was a timekeeper for the London County Council sewerage department. He was from Portsmouth, Hampshire. Emily Kate Hayes, 39, was from Wandsworth. The couple had 2 surviving children (of 3). Eighteen-year-old Robert Charles Hayes was a clerk for a type foundry. He was born in South Lambeth. His brother William Alfred, 17, was a clerk for a motor sport company and was born in Kennington.