This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Arthur Frederick Tondeur)
(Tondeur, Arthur Frederick)
Service no 25603
Private, East Surrey Regiment, 12th Battalion
Died age 20 on 18 June 1917
Son of Louis and Phoebe Ann Tondeur, of 13, Courtenay Square, Kennington, London.
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium and at St Mark's Church, London SE11
Brother of Leopold Victor Tondeur
Information from the 1911 census
The Tondeurs were a large family living at 6 rooms at 116 Upper Kennington Lane. In 26 years of marriage Louis Lion Tondeur, 49, and Phoebe Ann Tondeur, 45, had 13 children, 9 of them surviving. Louis was born in Sunderland and Phoebe in West Bromwich. Louis worked as a turncock (that is, he worked for the local water company, opening and closing the water supply. He also had to inform householders that their water was being turned off.) The children, all born in Vauxhall were:
Florence Zoe Tondeur, 25, a clerk
Louis George Tondeur, 23, a plumber's mate
(Louis' pension record survives in the National Archives - he was invalided out of the Army in March 1915 with a gunshot wound to his scalp; he signed up in September 1914.)
Frank Tondeur, 21, a clerk
Lydia Mary Tondeur, 19, a waistcoat tailoress
Arthur Frederick Tondeur, 14, a messenger, remembered on the St Mark's Memorial
Leopold Victor Tondeur, 13
John Henry Tondeur, 10
Clion Louis Tondeur, 7
Jorie Adelaide Constance Tondeur, 3
Phoebe's father, G. H. Bray, 67, was visiting from West Bromwich.