Wandsworth & Battersea have, in the RVPA for Girls and for Boys (now Emanuel School), the largest memorials to the Crimean war anywhere in Britain.
Why were they built, and why were they built here?
CHARLES AMES
COLB: 1818, Charles Ames, 1th Light Dragoons.
Died Wandsworth...widow living Currie St Battersea
JOHN BREESE/BREEZE
COLB: 1102 John Breese, 11th Hussars.
BREWINGTON
COLB: 1510, Brewington, 4th Light Dragoons.
Shadows of Time: J Brewington1.
In 1851 was living as a journeyman baker in Upper Tooting before he joined up -
CAMPBELL - daughter Webbs Rd
COLB: 1366, A Campbell, 13th Light Dragoons.
FOREMAN attested B
COLB: 1149, S Foreman, 13th Light Dragoons.
W FREESTONE - lived Wandsworth - the Wandsworth Gas Co, sited near Wandsworth Bridge, provided gas to Battersea as well - didn't Neil Robson write about him in the WH?
COLB: 1544, W Freestone, 4th Light Dragoons.
J GAMMAGE
widow living in B 1891 [also SABINE RD!]
COLB: 1029, J Gammage, 13th Light Dragoons.
HOOK, b. Clapham, married in Battersea
COLB: 1264, A Hook, 13th Light Dragoons.
JAMES LAMB...
COLB: 1406, James Lamb, 13th Light Dragoons.
JAMES_LAMB_COLB_Strand10_text.pdf
lamb_j_1406_13LD_interview_Harpers_1908-9_pp300-306.pdf
COLB: A Webb.
Lived Salcott Road - candidate for a blue plaque?
HARRY POWELL's son-in-law lived in Sabine Rd
COLB: Link.
PERCY SHAWE SMITH
COLB: Percy Shawe Smith.
EDWARD TURPIN - briefly?
COLB: 1821, Edward Turpin, 13th Light Dragoons.
John VEITCH
Acc. to a possible descendant, may have lived in Albert Street [Clapham? Battersea?)
COLB: John Veitch, 13th Light Dragoons.
CHARLES WARREN lived in Battersea [briefly?]