All lived in the Silwood Street Area.
Sergeant William Robert Gibbins. Royal Naval Division Chatham Battalion. Lived at 48 Bracton Road, Rotherhithe.
Was killed on 05/10/1914 age 29, buried Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium.
PRIVATE ALFRED PERRIN.
London Gazette 14th September 1916. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Military Medal for bravery in the field to the under mentioned:
869 Pte. A. Perrin, Royal West Kent Regiment, son of Philip and Agnes Perrin, of 15 Edale Road, Rotherhithe.
Sadly, Private Alfred PERRIN, G/869, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, was killed in action, Flanders France, 3rd October 1917, age 24.
PRIVATE JAMES KELLY, 27 Edale Road, Rotherhithe, aged 19.
In December 1917,HM Troopship Osmanieh was taking troops to Egypt to participate in the Palestine compaing,on the 31st December 1917, as it was approaching the port of Alexandria in Egypt, unbeknown to anyone she was in the area where a German submarine had laid mines a few days earlier and when she hit one of these mines,she sank within seven minutes in the same place that HMT Arogan had been torpedoed the previous day. One hundred and ninety-nine people aboard HM Osmanieh lost their lives. Including JAMES KELLY of the Royal Engineers.
I wonder if they knew each other.