This name is on St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Edward Debley)
Service no 63133
Private, Machine Gun Corps, 115th Coy.
Killed in action age 19 on 8 February 1917
Son of Thomas John and Agnes Debley, of London.
Remembered at Ferme-Olivier Cemetery, Belgium
Information from the censuses
In 1901, Edward Debley, then 3, lived at 8 Carpenter Street, London W1 (between Berkley Square and Grosvenor Square) with his father, Thomas Debley, 37, a GPO (General Post Office) porter from Hurstgreen, Sussex, and mother, Agnes Debley, 36, from Biddenden, Kent. The children registered on the census were:
Annie Debley, 15, general domestic servant, born in Cranbrook, Kent
Thomas Debley, 13, born in Ticehurst, Sussex
Elizabeth Debley, 10, born in Westminster
Josephine Debley, 8, born in Westminster
Edward Debley, 3, born in Westminster and remembered at St Mark's
Ann Thorp, an aunt of Thomas Debley (senior), a 64-year-old widowed housemaid from Hurstgreen, lived with the family.
By 1911 there were 9 children and a grandchild. William, John, Nellie and May had been born in the intervening 10 years. Granddaughter Alice, 2, had arrived - possibly the (illegitimate) daughter of Annie, who is not present at this address. Since she bears the Debley name and Thomas Debley, now 23, is living at home and single this would seem the most likely explanation.