This name is at St John's Church of England, Clapham Road, London SW9
Urban Robert Coen Gardner
Killed in action on 6 August 1918, aged 19
Private, Honourable Artillery Company, 2nd Battalion
Service no. 9268
Enlisted in Wandsworth; lived in Clapham
Remembered at Boscon British Cemetery, Italy, on the British Board of Trade memorial; the Patent Office Memorial 1914-1918, now in Concept House, Newport, and at St John's Church of England, Clapham Road, London SW9
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Urban R C Gardner, then aged 12, was living at 45 Mayflower Road, Stockwell with his parents, Urban W. Gardner, 43, a gents outfitter born in Battersea, and Alice E. Gardner, 43, from Deptford, south-east London, a cousin, Walter Sallinger, 18, a boarder, William G. Rudd, 16, both of them boy clerks in the civil service and both from Yarmouth, and five siblings:
Constance Gardner, 21, "domestic duties", born in Fulham
Harold F. V. Gardner, 17, a clothier salesman, born in Deptford
Florence Gardner, 14, born in Deptford
Edith M Gardner, 10, born in Deptford
John Gardner, 7, born in Lambeth
Information from British Army records
Fortunately Urban Gardner's, record is one of those surviving in WO363 ' Burnt Records' and reveals the following:
Date of attestation - 12/5/16
Address given on attestation 83 Broomfield Road Clapham
Embarked Southampton 6/11/17
Arrived 8 Infantry base Havre 7/11/17
Entrained with BEF Italy 19/20/11/17
Killed in action in Italy 6/8/18
Description on attestation: Height 5" 6 3/4"