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
Brother of William J. Macro
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.