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 DepartmentR 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) |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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.
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