Metropolitan Borough of Deptford Roll of Honour

Members, Officers and employees of the Deptford Borough Council who are serving under the Colours in the defence of their Country.

Members of the Council

Name	Service	Position on Council
W F Marchant MA JP	Captain and Adjutant, 20th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment	Mayor
G Tams	Sergeant, 6th City of London Rifles	Councillor

Officers and Employees

Town Clerks Department

R O Swanson	London Scottish	Committee Clerk
* C E Vernall	City of London Fusiliers	Clerk in the Rating Department. 26 June 1917 commissioned into the Manchester Regiment
H G Reed	Royal Army Medical Corps	Committee Clerk
Arthur Stephen Lidington	Royal Army Medical Corps	Clerk of 55 St Asaph Road, Brockley
Frederick Charles Mitchell	Royal Army Medical Corps	Clerk transferred from Borough Accountant's Department Nov 1913, where he had started work in March 1913. Aged 16 of 34 Sandbourne Road, Brockley. Enlisted 7 Sept 1914, Served in Gallipoli, Serbia and Salonika, where he contracted Malaria
S Lawford	Royal Field Artillery (Deptford Battery)

Public Health Department

H J Smith	Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve	Clerk in the Public Health Department
R D J Simpson	National Reserve	Inspector
G Abbott	4th Dragoon Guards	Caretaker at the Tuberculosis Dispensary
R Gladman	Royal Engineers
* G Wagner	National Reserve (Windsor Castle Guard)
T Lyons	Band of the Artists' Rifles 28th (Reserve) Battalion London Regiment

Borough Surveyor's Department

G W Ruddle	National Reserve later Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers	Assistant Surveyor
A P Harcourt	Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers
Richard Hillier	15th County of London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles)	Correspondence Clerk at Walthamstow UDC from 15 October 1905 appointed Clerk in Department May 1914 aged 23 of 502 Southwark Park Road, Rotherhithe
H W Chaplin	Army Pay Corps	Clerk
William Land	Army Pay Corps	Appointed 4th Class Clerk July 1913 aged 17 of 150 Charlton Lane, Charlton, was Junior Clerk in Public Health Department of Greenwich Borough Council. Not accepted for Service in September 1914, but had joined by Jan 1915.

Borough Accountant's Department

Spencer F Cox	Army Cyclist Corps	Clerk from July 1913 aged 17 of 8 Roxley Road, Lewisham.
S J Gorbold	1st Kent Cyclist Battalion	Clerk

Public Libraries Department

C A Harris	Seaforth Highlanders	Sub-Librarian at New Cross Library, moved to Central Library when it opened in 1914
A S Steward	Seaforth Highlanders	Sub-Librarian at New Cross Library and then at Central Library in 1913 before opening.
Duncan Gray	Royal Army Medical Corps	Librarian in Charge at New Cross appointed July 1914 aged 22 from 2 Grosvenor Villa, Coventry, where he was Chief Assistant in Coventry Public Libraries since December 1911 and Librarian at Carlise Public Library 1907 - 1911. . Not accepted for Service in September 1914, but had joined by Jan 1915.
Walter Lenton	Royal Fusiliers	April 1913 aged 22 of 20 Gravel Road, Twickenham, was the First Assistant at Twickenham Public Library. Was appointed Senior Assistant New Cross Library, from May 1914 Central Library. Not accepted for Service in September 1914, but had joined by Jan 1915.
Thomas Allen	Royal Marines	Caretaker at New Cross Library, had previously been a Messenger at the Town Hall

Works Department

Edward B Allen	Army Service Corps	Carman from 13 Feb 1913 aged 33 of 8 Desmond Street
R C Baldwin	Royal Field Artillery
H Barber	Royal Engineers
J Bennett	Royal Navy	Sweeper and Sunday Attendant at St Paul's Churchyard from 2 April 1914
G T Bolt	Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
A W Cockett	Royal Engineers
F C Cockett	Royal Engineers
E Cook	Royal West Kent Regiment	Carman
C Elkins	Royal Field Artillery (Deptford Battery)	Mason Pavior from 28 June 1913
J C F Field	Royal Field Artillery
J Finley	The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
T Flegg	Army Service Corps	Carman from 26 March 1914
Frederick E Francis	Royal Marine Light Infantry	Sweeper and Sunday Attendant at St Paul's Churchyard from 16 Aug 1913 of 44 Kerry Road.
William Gadd	Army Service Corps	Sweeper from 10 Feb 1913, in July 1913 he became a Carman
E G Griffiths	Royal Field Artillery
T Henning	Royal Army Medical Corps	Carman, driver of horse number 25
C J Hopgood	Royal Engineers
J Howard	Royal Engineers
G Hughes	National Reserve
J Hughes	Royal Field Artillery
J W Moore	Army Service Corps	Carman
A J Murphy	Royal Engineers
H Page	Royal Engineers
W Petty	Royal Field Artillery
H Robinson	18th (Pioneer) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment
J Ryan	National Reserve
Walter Louis Simmonds	National Reserve	Attendant at St Paul's Churchyard Recreation Ground from June 1913, aged 34 was a male attendant in the service of Greenwich Guardian Union.
R L Skea	Royal Field Artillery
H W Waghorn	National Reserve
R Warner	National Reserve
Arthur Whiffin	Army Service Corps	Road Sweeper from 8 July 1912, became a Carman from March 1913

Baths and Washhouses Department

F Abbott	National Reserve
F Cooper	Royal Field Artillery (Camberwell Battery)
L Kemp	Royal Field Artillery (Deptford Battery)
F Peach	Royal Field Artillery (Deptford Battery)

This is a copy of the list produced January 1915 and displayed at the Town Hall, the Baths, Public Libraries and Knott Street Depot. One of the copies is held by the Local History and Archives Centre, Lewisham. Italics are additional information from Roll of Honour.

• Also on Deptford, Constitutional Club WW1 War Memorial.

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