Below more information on those on the memorial above.

SIDNEY MYLAND STURGEON.
Private 200039 1st/4th Bn , Norfolk Regiment.
Died Thursday 19th April 1917, Age 21.
GAZA WAR CEMETERY, Israel,
Grave XXIII,G.8
Son of William & Jane Sturgeon of Home Farm Thornhaugh,
Peterborough,
Sidney was Born Merton.


GEORGE HERBERT STURGEON.
Private 8859 1st Bn , Norfolk Regiment.
Died Thursday 29th March 1917, Age 24.
NIKOLAI Cemetery, Latvia,
Grave I.B.2
Son of William & Jane Sturgeon of Home Farm Thornhaugh,
Peterborough,
George was Born Merton.


BERNARD CYRIL WALLIS FLETCHER.
Ordinary Seaman.
S.S."HERON" Mercantile Marine.
Died Sunday 30th September 1917, Age 16.
Memorial; TOWER HILL MEMORIAL,London.
Grave I.B.2
Son of William & Annie Fletcher, The Old Rectory,Merton.
Bernard was Born Stettin Germany..

SS Heron built by Gourlay Brothers for
General Steam Navigation Company in
1889 and was launched 1890,
She was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine
400 miles West of Ushant on
22 men including the captain were killed.

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WILLIAM JOHN SMITH.
Driver T4/058I74 ,2nd Depot Coy, Army Service Corps.
Died 8th March 1915, Age 32.
GREENWICH CEMETERY
Grave 3 "C." A. 127
Son of James and Charlotte Smith, of Merton.

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GEORGE LEWIS BROWN.
Private 51154 ,Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 28th October 1916, Age 19.
MERTON CHURCHYARD.
Son of George and Emma Brown, of Merton.

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DUNCAN FLOWER CUNNINGHAM-REID.
Second Lieutenant of the 29th Lancers and RFC.
Died 19th December 1915, Age 26.

Cement House Cemetery in Belgium. Plot VIIA. D. 8.. .
Son of Arthur Morse Reid
D.F.C-Reid was Born Merton.

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