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Henry Louis Moss

13 August 2015 by SWM

H. L. Moss
Service no. 11338
Private, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), 5th Battalion
Born at Walworth; enlisted at St. Paul’s Churchyard, London; lived at Clapham
Killed in action at Gallipoli on 10 August 1915 at about age 23
Remembered at Helles Memorial, Turkey and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA. (Note: The listing gives the name as Henry Moss, which could be either Henry Louis Moss or his father, Henry Thomas Moss. As Henry Louis Moss died before his father, our guess is that the listing refers to Henry Louis.)

Son of Henry Thomas Moss (their names are, uniquely, listed side by side).

Filed Under: M names, St Michael's War Shrine, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1915, age 23, Gallipoli, KIA, Turkey

George Henry Mayes

13 August 2015 by SWM

G. H. Mayes
Service no. Deal/1834(S)
Private, Royal Marines, R.M. Div. Train, R.N. Div.
Died on 12 June 1915 at age 35
Died of wounds in 2nd (RN) Field Ambulance (shrapnel wound right side, same date)
CWGC: “Husband of Elizabeth M. Mayes, of 10 Stafford Road, Brixton, London.”
Remembered at Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey

Filed Under: M names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1915, age 35, DOW, Turkey

Thomas Loader

11 August 2015 by SWM

T. Loader
Service no. 2749
Serjeant, Welsh Regiment, 8th Battalion
Born in Kingston; enlisted in Kingston; lived in Clapham
Killed in action 8 August 1915 (Gallipoli campaign)
Remembered at Helles Memorial, Turkey

Filed Under: L names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1915, Gallipoli, KIA, Turkey

Philip Thomas Wilson Grant

10 August 2015 by SWM

WW1 officer Philip Thomas Wilson Grant
Philip Thomas Wilson Grant

P. T. W. Grant
Second Lieutenant, Wiltshire Regiment, 8th Battalion attd. 5th Battalion
Killed in action, age 18, on 15 October 1915
Born 30 November 1896
Son of Philip and Isabel Emilie Letitia Grant, of 52 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell, London
Remembered at Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey and on the war shrine at St Michael’s Church, Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA

Information from the 1911 Census

In 1911 the Grant family were living at 52 Stockwell Park Road, where they had 10 rooms. The family consisted of Philip Grant, 41, a butcher born at Withington, Lancashire; his wife Isabel, 35, born at Irvinestown, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland; two children born in Stockwell and still at school – Philip Thomas Wilson, then 14, and Isabel Winifred Jessie, 11. There was also a boarder, Henry Harling Denning, 28, a cashier born in Bristol, and a live-in servant, Lily Ellett, 17, born in Lambeth.

Information from the 1901 Census

Ten years previously, the family were living at 1 Sidney Road, SW9, with George Wilson, 23, and also a butcher, born in Stratford, Essex, who is described as “brother-in-law”, as well as an 18-year-old servant, Jane Ray, born in Fulham.

St Olave’s School

The picture of Grant is taken from a presentation by Peter J. Leonard available on the St Olave’s School website at www.saintolaves.net. When you enter the site, click on ‘Welcome’ then on ‘Chaplaincy’ and scroll to the bottom. There is a thread on St Olave’s at the Great War Forum.

Grant attended the school between May 1908 and December 1912.

Filed Under: Featured, G names, St Michael's War Shrine, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1915, age 18, KIA, officer, Turkey

William Henry Murray Giles

10 August 2015 by SWM

W. H. M. Giles
Service no. G/4952
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion
Died on 9 May 1915
Born in Lambeth; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Remembered at Helles Memorial, Turkey

William Henry Murray Giles was born in Lambeth on 28 January 1885, the son of Walter George Giles, a carman from Godalming, Surrey, and Lillian Jane (née Ford) from Lambeth. The family lived in Waterloo.

In 1908 William married Florence Winifred Bartlett at St John the Evangelist, Waterloo. A son, Henry, was born in 1910 and a daughter, Mabel, in 1911. By 1911 the family were living in two rooms at 26 Burgoyne Road, Stockwell. He enlisted in London. William worked as a carman for Lambeth Borough Council. 

Filed Under: G names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1915, Turkey

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