Private Louis Wisbey

Date of Birth c1890
Age at Death 27
Date of Death 29/11/1917
Service Number G/21187
Military Service Buffs (East Kent) Regiment, 7th Battalion
Merton Address Mitcham
Local Memorial Mitcham War Memorial

Additional Information

Louis Wisbey was the fifth child of Arthur William and Elizabeth Wisbey according to the 1901 Census. His father, a 47 year old was a carpenter grocer and his mother was a year older than her husband. The family lived in their own accommodation, in the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Peter & Paul in Mitcham.

At the time of the 1901 Census, Arthur William and Elizabeth Wisbey had six children living at home, their eldest child of 24 years, Arthur Harry was a tobacco presser, and their eldest daughter Florence age just 21 years was a grocer’s assistant. William, the second son, aged 19 was a tobacco packer, while the third son John aged 16 years was employed as a grocer’s assistant. Louis aged 12 and his younger brother Ernest aged 10 years have no listed occupation.

The 1911 Census reveals that Arthur William Wisbey aged 56 years had been married to his wife Elizabeth for 35 years. The couple had a total of 9 children of which 2 children had died presumably in infancy.

Their eldest child Arthur Harry and second son William is no longer living at home but Dorothy May Topham an 11 year old granddaughter is living with the family at Church Street in Mitcham.

Florence, the eldest daughter at the age of 31 is still living with her parents and is still employed as a grocer’s assistant, while Louis at the age of 22 years is now employed as a fishmonger’s assistant, his brother Ernest aged 19 years is now employed as a labourer in a tobacco factory.

Louis is believed to have married Florence Chapman, a 26 year old, public school teacher in the last quarter of 1914 according to the marriage records in Croydon.

Louis Wisbey enlisted in the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) in Mitcham and was killed in action on the 29/11/1917 along with 5 other members of his regiment. He is buried at the Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge in Belgium

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