Sadly through researching this site it has become clear that a large number of people named on these memorials have no known graves. Their bodies were never formally recovered and buried, although they could be among the unknown service personnel graves maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. For the families there was no grave to visit or identify with, so local memorials became important for them.
My Great Uncle was among those at the Battle of the Somme whose body was never identified and I have not been able to find out when he went from missing in action to presumed dead. That must of been a hard time for the family but also through this wiki it can be seen it was obviously a hard time for families in nearby streets and other residents of Lewisham Borough area.[Click here for links to the Campaigns and Battles pages]
Those Lewisham residents whose bodies were never identified and are registered as missing:
- Stapleton, Henry George
- Starling, Frederick Leslie
- Stevens, Alfred Norman
- Stewart, Edward Henry Cecil
- Still, Reginald Sydney Hewitt
- Stockbridge, Cecil Fay
- Stoessiger, Herbert North
- Stone, Walter Napleton VC
- Straub, Leopold Alfred
- Street, Cecil
- Strike, Philip Henry
- Stringer, Stanley Frederick
- Stringman, George James
- Stroud, Lewis Frank
- Strutt, Orlando Napier
- Stubley, Fred
- Sturman, John Alfred
- Sudds, William Childs
- Swain, Keith
- Swales, William Aubrey Francis
- Symons, Alfred
- Synyer, Richard Harold
- Syrett, Alfred Montague
- Talbot, Norman Hale
- Taplin, Harry
- Tatam, Alfred MM
- Taylor, Leonard Reginald Osborne
- Thomas, Stanley Morgan
- Thorndyke, Charles John
- Thornton, Douglas Saville
- Thorp, Henniker Ernest
- Thurston, Percy William
- Tinning, David
- Tite, Henry William
- Tomlinson, Charles Frederick
- Tonge, Alfred Barnaby
- Torkington, William Charles
- Tottle, Stanley Charles
- Tovey, Harold Stephen
- Trask, Sydney Robert
- Tucker, Ralph Clifford
- Tudenham, Maurice
- Tudor, William Henry
- Tumber, Edward
- Turner, Stanley Edgar
- Twining, Cecil Francis Harvey
- Tyler, William
- Tysoe, Norman Harold
- Underwood, Edmund Poole
- Van Essen, Cecil Echlin
- Veal, Edward Arthur John
- Vernon, Cecil Charles
- Vince, Samuel Alfred
- Vining, Cuthbert Lionel
- Wade, William T
- Wadman, Arthur Frederick
- Wagner, John
- Wakely, Alex Dinham
- Walden, Otto John Mark
- Walker, Dennis Gordon
- Wallington, Henry Albert Victor
- Wallis, Alfred George
- Wannop,Sidney Clarence
- Ward, Alfred Webb
- Ward, Dacre Stanley
- Ward, John Fraser
- Warman, William
- Waterland, Douglas
- Watson, Sydney
- Websdale, Herbert Sidney
- West, George Stanley
- Weston, George Primrose MC
- Weston, Victor Claude
- Wheeker, Lionel Cottrell
- Wheeler, Alfred Samuel
- Wheeler, Augustus Henry
- Wheeler, Charles
- White, Charles Robert
- White, Cyril Arthur
- White, Sydney Henry John
- Wiggins, George Alexander
- Wilder, Alec Edwards
- Wilkinson, Gordon Frederick Noble
- Williams, Douglas Ernest
- Williams, John William
- Wilson, Thomas J. MM
- Winter, Alfred James
- Winter, Harold Reuben
- Withers, Cecil John
- Withey, Alfred Arthur
- Wolfe, Bertie Hugh
- Wood, Thomas Victor
- Woodfine, Arthur Victor
- Woodrooffe, Arthur Henry
- Woolmer, Stanley Herbert France
- Woolston, Charles Fraser
- Wootton, Frank Stanley
- Wreford, John Robson
- Wyles, Arthur George Edy
- Yeo, Charles Ernest
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