Edward Alfred Macro

Edward Alfred Macro

Service no. 8831

Private, Suffolk Regiment, 9th Battalion

Died of wounds on 19 December 1915, aged about 19

Born in Stockwell; enlisted in Kingston-upon-Thames

Remembered at White House Cemetery, St Jean-les-Ypres, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Edward Alfred Macro, then 15 and his brother William J. Macro, 10, lived at 17 Seneca Road in Clapham with their parents, Brixton-born Henry Macro, 45, a motorman for London County Council Trams, and Florence Macro, 39, born in Islington, north London. There were 11 children, of whom 9 were listed on the census:

Elenor Macro, 17, a domestic servant, born in Stockwell

Edward Alfred Macro, 15, an errand boy, born in Stockwell

William J. Macro, 10, born in Clapham

Daisy Macro, 8, born in Clapham

Walter Macro, 6, born in Clapham

Nellie Macro, 4, born in Clapham

Violet Macro, 4, born in Clapham

Winnie Macro, 2, born in Clapham

Elise Macro, 5 months, born in Clapham

A boarder, Bertha Bailey, 27, shared the 6-roomed dwelling.