William Edmund Downey was born in 1883 in London. In 1891 he lived in Lessar Avenue in Clapham before moving to Lucien road in Tooting where he was recorded as living in the 1901 census.

William married Alice Downey on september the 7th 1910 in Dublin Ireland aged 27 years.

William died in 1917 off Malta aged 34 years.

Mike Downey