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21 October 1916 : L/Cpl William Beck
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William Beck was born in Haggerston, East London, on 11 February 1893. His family moved to Walthamstow where he attended Blackhorse Road Boys’ School from 1902-1907. At the 1911 Census William, age 18, William was working as a metal polisher. He was the oldest of eight children. William enlisted as a private at the start of the war in the 8th...
4 November 1918 : Gnr Cecil French
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Son of Arthur (a successful grocery and provision merchant) and Edith French. They lived above the shop at 159 Forest Row, Walthamstow N.E. Cecil French joined Blackhorse Road Boys’ School on 11 June 1906. He left school in April 1913 and transferred to the Technical School. Cecil enlisted in January 1917 and served as a Gunner in the 1st/16...
The Boys of Blackhorse Road by Malcolm Doolin
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More than simply a collection of personal, short life and service histories of the boys who as men served and died during the First World War, The Boys of Blackhorse Road is a social history of the era, which ably straddles this extraordinarily transitional era, say 1880s to 1920s. The story of the school is assiduously told; throughout it remai...