Remembrance Thursday
Local Putney historians have been hard and successfully at it to put some “flesh” on the 343 men who died in the First World War and whose names live forever more on St Mary’s Church(where the Putney Debates took place) Roll of Honour.
We have lived in three Putney streets. Each gave sons for “Freedom and Honour”. Typically the street with the detached and semi detached villas gave officers. The terraced houses (now worth £1.5m+) gave other ranks.The dates are when we lived there.
Mexfield Road(1975-80)
Reginald Edgar Hall. Publishing clerk. Aged 23 died May 1915, buried Calais. Lance Corporal London Regiment. Lived with his parents Thomas and Violet at no 18.
Clifford Coates Marels. Aged 21 died November 1917, buried Jerusalem. Private , machine gun corps, Bucks and Berks Regiment. Lived with parents CHS and Alice at no 65.
William John Mills. Aged 23 died September 1918, buried Esqelbecq,France. Second Lieutenant RAF and Northumberland Fusiliers. Lived with parents John and Ada at 59.
Dryburgh Road (1980-2006).
John Richard Hughes .Aged 23 died June 1918,buried Rouen. Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery.Lived with parents William and Janet at no 20.
Leslie King Rayner. Aged 27 died April 1917,buried Vlamertinghe, Belgium. Second Lieutenant.Royal Sussex Regiment. Lived with parents Arthur and Charlotte at no 17.
Gerald Roderick Savage, Aged 30 died October 1917,remembered Tyne Cot, Belgium. Captain Essex Regiment. Parents lived at no 20.
Festing Road( 2006-
Albert Edward Biscoe. Bus conductor lived at no 3.
John “Jack”Copping.Died February 1919. Sergeant Royal Army Service Corps, buried pas de Calais. Married to Maud and lived at 43.
George Arthur Down.House painter. Aged 33,died July 1917,buried pas de Calais. Private,East Kent(the Buffs) Regiment. Married Lived at 75.
John Gobbey. Aged 28 died November 1915,buried Netley, Hampshire. Lance Corporal, Royal Fusiliers.Once of St Marys Boys School he had in 1899 moved from Erpingham Road to no 11 .
Putney Remembers the Men of the First World War. St Marys Roll of Honour. Wandsworth Historical Society and the Putney Society. £5. Available at the Library.
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