This name is on St John's Church Memorial, Clapham Road, London SW4
(Alan Trafford Deverell)
Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 15th Bty. 6th London Bde.
Service no. 1956
Died on 23 June 1915, aged 16.
CGWC: "Son of Fred and Elizabeth M. Deverell, of 38, Rectory Grove, Clapham, London."
Remembered at Le Touquet-Paris Plage Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1911 census
Alan Trafford Deverell was born c. October 1898.
In 1911, he was living with his parents Fred and Elizabeth Mary Deverell (nee Potter) at 37 Braybourne Ave, Clapham, along with elder brother, Frederick William and younger brothers, Jack and Frank. His father, Fred Deverell, was born in Hackney in 1867 and his mother, Elizabeth, in Marylebone on 13 May 1870. Fred was a musician in the Grenadier Guards, enlisting in 1884. Alan's elder brother Frederick enlisted in 1915 and survived the war. His brother Frank died in India in 1936 while serving in the army.