John Thomas Elwood

A Civilian, John died on 9th of April 1941 at the age of 82. 

John as born at Stradbroke, Suffolk, on 4 March 1859, a son of William and Susannah Elwood. He was baptised at Stradbroke on 26 January 1862. In 1871 his family lived at Barley Green, Stradbroke.

It seems that John began work as a Railway Signalman about 1877. In 1881 he was a lodger at 34 Osprey Street, Rotherhithe. 

On 20 October 1881 John  married Emma Fanny Cattermole at Saint Mary Magdalen Church, Peckham. John was a railway signalman and the both gave 10 Queen's Road as their address.  

Between 1891 and 1921 they lived at 94 Saint Hughes Road, Penge, and the 1921 Census shows John as a Railway Signalman working for the London and Brighton Railway at Sydenham. 

Emma died in 1925 and sometime later John moved to Lowestoft. In 1939 he lived at 107 Clapham Road and the 1939 Register shows him as a retired Railway Foreman.

John died at 107 Clapham Road during an air raid.