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Stanford Rivers – John Joseph Cable [9981]
[9981] Lance Corporal in the 9th Battalion, Essex Regiment.
He enlisted at Stratford. He was killed in action on 3 July 1916.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the
Thiepval Memorial, France.
He was born about 1891 in Plaistow, the son of Charles and Emma Cable,
who later resided at 41 Berwick Lane, Stanford Rivers.
He was the brother of Mark Cable.
In the 1901 Census, Emma Cable, described as a widow aged 35, was living at
5 West Street, Walthamstow, with her four children: Samuel, aged 13; John,
aged 10; Alfred, aged 6; and Mark, aged 4.
They were recorded as “Boarders” at the address. The occupier was
John Dunningham, described as a widower, whose occupation was cowman.
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9th Battalion Essex
The Thiepval Memorial
6 The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000
officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20
March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November
1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle Memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the
1916 offensive and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French graves lies at
the foot of the memorial.
7 In the 1911 Census she is shown as a Widow and wife of Charles Dunningham.
