C.F. SeymourLance Corporal, Scots Guards, 2nd Bn. Service no. 14265Died on 24 August 1918, aged about 26Remembered at Mory Street Military Cemetery, St Leger, France and on the Rainhill Asylum roll of honour, now in the care of Rainhill British Legion Cecil Francis Seymour was born in 1892 at Christmas Common, Watlington, Oxfordshire, the youngest […]
Victor Albert Scutt
A. V. Scutt Service no. G/15812 Lance Corporal, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1st Battalion Born, enlisted and lived in Lambeth Killed in action on 21 March 1918 Remembered at Arras Memorial, France (Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Soldiers Died in the Great War databases has Scutt as Victor Albert rather than Albert Victor)
Sydney Herbert Scott
S. H. Scott Service no. 352378 Private, London Regiment, (5524). “A” Coy. 1st/7th Battalion Enlisted at Sun Street; lived in Clapham Killed in action on 7 October 1916, aged 21 CWGC: “Son of Herbert Forester Scott, and Emma Eliza Scott, of 24 Edithna Street, Landor Road, Stockwell, London.” Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France National Roll […]
Albert George Victor Sales
A. G. V. Sales Service no. 242156 Private, Leicestershire Regiment, “A” Coy. 2nd/5th Battalion Killed in action on 26 September 1917, aged 33 Born in Battersea; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Clapham. CWGC: “Son of Mrs T. Sales, of 36 Peardon Street, Clapham, London.” Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium British Army WWI Service Records […]
George Frederick William Sach
G. F. W. SachService no. 470989Rifleman, London Regiment (The Rangers), 12th BattalionBorn in Ealing; enlisted in London; lived in StockwellKilled in action on 21 September 1918, aged 21CWGC: “Son of George and Emily E. Sach, of 28 Edithna Road, Stockwell, London.”Remembered at Villers Hill British Cemetery, Villers-Guislain, France and St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London […]
Frank William Edmund Russell
F. W. E. RussellService no. 302875Rifleman, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), “D” Coy. 1st/5th BattalionBorn in Southwark; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in StockwellKilled in action on 16 August 1917, aged 26CWGC: “Son of Mr and Mrs F. Russell, of 89, London Rd., Southwark, London; husband of Katherine L. Russell, of 33 St Martin’s Rd., Stockwell, […]
Thomas William Rudge
T. W. RudgeService no. S/6582Private, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 7th BattalionKilled in action on 18 November 1916, aged about 28Born in Stockwell; enlisted in MaidstoneRemembered at Stump Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France and at St Andrew’s Church, Landor Road, London SW9 Thomas William Rudge, the son of Richard Daniel Rudge and Isabella (née Baker) […]
Arthur Frederick Victor Routledge
A. F. V. Routledge Service no. G/14788 Private, Leicestershire Regiment, 9th Battalion Killed in action on 14 April 1917, aged 28 Born in Highgate; enlisted in Leicester CWGC: “Son of Arthur and Selina Routledge, of 13 Tregothnan Road, Stockwell, London.” Remembered at St Leger British Cemetery, France (Photo: courtesy of Peter Bennett) Information from the […]
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 […]
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 […]