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Tynemouth Road

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Built on the Gorringe Park estate, this road is south of Ashbourne Road and east of Heaton Road.

1911 OS map

1911 OS map

World War 1 Connections
Rifleman Percy Vincent Jenkins
Private Edward Victor Keene
Private Percy James Powell

From the Surrey Recruitment Registers:

C G BALDWIN of 16a Tynemouth Road, aged 37 Years 2 Months, Clerk. Conscripted on 11 July 1917 to the 107th Training Reserve Batn (juniors).

G A BARNES of 1 Tynemouth Road, aged 25 Years 8 Months, Stoker. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the Royal Field Artillery.

W BRIDLE of 44 Tynemouth Road, aged 19 Years, Porter. Joined on 15 February 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment.

A G BRINKWORTH of 8 Tynemouth Road, aged 36 Years 3 Months, Roundsman. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 12 December 1915 to the East Kent Regiment (3/4th Batn).

J R CASE of 41a Tynemouth Road, aged 32 Years 4 Months, Clerk. Conscripted on 7 August 1917 to the Army Service Corps (reserve).

W A CLARKE of 49 Tynemouth Road, aged 27 Years 9 Months, Clerk. Conscripted on 3 June 1917 to the 105th Training Reserve Batn.

A T COE of 45a Tynemouth Road, aged 39 Years 6 Months, Clerk. Conscripted on 10 December 1915 to the Army Service Corps (reserve).

F R COX of 33a Tynemouth Road, aged 38 Years 10 Months, Bricklayer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the Royal Field Artillery.

G T HOBDEN of 26a Tynemouth Road, aged 25 Years 10 Months, Mtr Trimmer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 10 December 1915 to the Recruiting Office.

A W HOLDLEY of 57 Tynemouth Rd, aged 22 Years 10 Months, Buyer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 15 January 1916 to the East Kent Regiment (3rd Batn).

A P LEE of 14 Tynemouth Road, aged 36 Years 8 Months, Milkman. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 9 December 1915 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment (3rd Batn).

C LLOYD of 43 Tynemouth Road, aged 26 Years 1 Months, Bank Messenger. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 1 December 1915 to the Royal West Surrey Regiment (12th Batn).

W A MITCHELL of 35a Tynemouth Road, aged 32 Years, Laundry. Conscripted on 5 February 1916 to the Middlesex Regiment (29th Batn).

W MONK of 6 Tynemouth Rd, aged 27 Years 10 Months, Cutter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 10 January 1916 to the Royal Garrison Artillery.

F B PAIN of 6a Tynemouth Road Mitcham, aged 17 Years 11 Months, Tie Cutter. Conscripted on 20 January 1917 to the 22nd Training Reserve Batn.

A H PAYNE of 32a Tynemouth Rd, aged 31 Years 10 Months, Labourer. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 11 December 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (4th Batn).

V H PIKE of 24 Tynemouth Road, aged 23 Years, Carpenter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 23 February 1916 to the Recruiting Office.

R F RICHARDSON of 31a Tynemouth Road, aged 19 Years, Clerk. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 10 December 1915 to the Royal Engineers (3/1st Kent).

G W ROGERS of 23a Tynemouth Road, aged 18 Years 1 Months, Turner. Conscripted on 13 August 1917 to the 23rd Training Reserve Batn.

T SHIRLEY of 36 Tynemouth Road, aged 34 Years 11 Months, Assistant. Conscripted on 10 January 1917 to the Royal Fusiliers.

A H SMITH of 67 Tynemouth Road, aged 18 Years 1 Months, Clerk. Conscripted on 7 July 1917 to the 27th Training Reserve Batn.

W H SMITH of 17 Tynemouth Rd, aged 25 Years 5 Months, Metal Worker. Volunteered on 19 January 1915 to the Army Ordinance Corps.

L VICKERAGE of 45 Tynemouth Road, aged 22 Years 5 Months, Clerk. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 19 November 1915 to the Royal Garrison Artillery.

C WILDEMAN of 43a Tynemouth Road, aged 19 Years 5 Months, Tailor. Conscripted on 4 November 1916 to the Royal Army Medical Corps.

A WILSON of 14 Tynemouth Road, aged 33 Years 5 Months, Clerk. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 18 November 1915 to the East Surrey Regiment (10th Batn).

W A WINSCON of 40 Tynemouth Road, aged 22 Years, Fitter. Conscripted on 10 February 1917 to the Royal Field Artillery (no 4 Depot).

From the minutes of the Croydon Rural District Council
Volume IX 1903 – 1904
23rd April 1903
page 68

No. 2138, Wilson, J., 29 tenement houses, Tynemouth Road, Mitcham

Minutes of meetings held by the Croydon Rural District Council are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.

Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.

Private Geoffrey Chart

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DEATH OF PTE. CHART.

—Mr. R. M. Chart. C.A., is so well-known for many years’ work as surveyor to the old Rural District Council and as County Alderman, that the sympathy will be wide for the loss he has sustained in the death at the front of his son, Pte. Geoffrey Chart, who joined up on the outbreak of the Boer War, and after the campaign was over started in business in Cape Town. When this war commenced he again joined the Highlanders, and last spring came back for a few days to his old home. He was wounded in action on Sept. 21st, and hopeful news was sent as to his recovery, but he died Sept. 23rd. He was 36, and leaves a wife and two children. Alderman Chart has three other sons serving.

Source: Surrey Mirror – Friday 12 October 1917 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)

ALD. CHART’S BEREAVEMENT.

Pte. Geoffrey Chart, South African Contingent, whose death on Sept. 23rd from wounds received on the 21st is reported, was the fourth son of Mr. Robert M. Chart, St. Mary’s, Mitcham, Alderman of the Surrey County Council, and chairman of the Small Holdings and Allotments Committee.

Source: Surrey Advertiser – Saturday 06 October 1917 from the British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)

From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

Rank: Private
Service No: 10196
Date of Death: 23/09/1917
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: South African Infantry, 4th Regiment
Grave Reference: I. E. 6.
Cemetery: Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium.
Additional Information: Son of Robert and Florence Chart, of St. Mary’s, Mitcham, Surrey, England; husband of Margaret Chart, of Limebrook Cottage, Bingham Street, Bangor, Co. Down, Ireland.

The Nine Elms British Cemetery contains 1,556 Commonwealth burials from the First World War.

According to Eric Mobtague, in his Mitcham Histories : 1 The Cricket Green, page 105, St. Mary’s was the home of Robert Masters Chart from 1911 until his death in 1942. The house was near the old Methodist church, on the eastern side of the Cricket Green, and was demolished in the 1950s.

This image, part of a 1903 postcard, shows the old Methodist church and some houses next to it, which may include St Mary’s, where the road Chart Close is today.

c. 1903

c. 1903