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I've partially solved one of them thanks to local papers. This is a summary of what was written about him:

Chatham Observer 23 3 18: 
DRIVER ARTHUR WILLIAM MOON
Mech Transport Section of ASC.
Adopted son of Mrs E Doyle of Westcourt St
25yo. Educ Holy Trinity. Corporal Church Lads’ Brigade.
Went to France Sept 1914. In France 2 ˝ years. 3 months ago taken to hospital with consumption. Died in Brompton Hospital (NB is this London?) Monday week.
Gillingham Cemetery, Rev WD Driver conducted service. List of mourners.

It seems he served under his birth name, but appears on the memorial under his adopted name.

However..... just to confuse things the address is 24 Westcourt Street, the same address Annette found for Arthur Watts Doyle's mother, so I'm not entirely sure what is going on with this one.

Thanks Annette, that one definitely looks worth following up.

Thanks for the various replies, some food for thought there. I've ordered the death cert for Goodchild so maybe that will throw some light on that one.

If anyone has any additional clues I'd love to know.

I'm also surprised that on one memorial there are 5 names that don't seem to have a CWGC entry, in other people's experience, is that usual?

Also, in researching the memorial I found 4 more local men who died serving in the war who are not commemorated on the memorial. Is this an unusually high number on a memorial of 50 names?

The business was located at 6 High Street, Brompton and went through 3 phases:
1896-1903 James Charlesworth, Photographer
1903-1908 Charlesworth & Morehen
1908-1928 Morehen & Co.

It is possible that  your photo could be as late as c.1909 as I understand sometimes the cards the photographers used to mount the photos on could take many months to use up, so it is possible Morehen & Co were using up old stock of the Charlesworth & Morehen cards in the early months.

There is some interesting information there I did not know. I can add a little more about him:

He was born about March 1875 in or near Stourbridge, Worcestershire.

I cannot find him, or his mother and sisters in the 1881 census, though his father is listed as a married man, but at his own father's address, 11 Wood Street, Woollaston, Stourbridge. Some information I have suggests that his mother may have been born in Zurich, Switzerland, so I wonder if they were out of the contry at that time? (This is pure supposition, but may account for their apparent absence in that census)

In the 1891 census he is living at 11 Wood Street, Woollaston, Stourbridge with his grandfather, parents, sister and cousin and his occupation is listed as Scholar.

In the 1901 census he is living at 9 Chattaway Street, Ashton, Birmingham with his sister and parents and his occupation is listed as Medical Student. (Given the 1901 information above, I assume he must have been in his final year at the time the census was taken.)

Speaking to my father, he told me that William was a doctor in Gillingham until the very late 1950s (although he could not remember the addreess, he thought it was somewhere near Gillingham Station), so this ties in with the information above. However, William retired to Woodchurch, near Tenterden in Kent in about 1959/60 (my father took my mother (William's grand-daughter) down there to try and patch up the family rift (unsucessfully) in about 1960/61, a year or so after he retired there) so he was no longer practising in Gillingham by that date. (I know from my own experiences that Kelly's were not always quick to update details of regular entries, so the 1964 entry may have just been using out of date information, or it may be that he had retired from practice, but still had a connection to the business.)

I hope this is of some help.

As a foot note, there is a strange connection here as my father's grandparents also lived for a while in Kingswood Road, Gillingham before moving to Suffolk just before the first world war.