Born: 1891, Ipswich.
Died: 26th April 1916, age 24; KiA at La Basse, France.
Enlistment: Ipswich.
Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 3607
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st/4th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Location:
E. 17.
Pas de Calais,
France.
CENSUS
1901 20, Anglesea Road, Ipswich.
James was 9 years old and living with his parents & sisters.
Frederick Stanley Seaman, 46, a tobacco manufacturers Clerk; born Hintlesham, Suffolk.
Eleanor Seaman (nee Wase), 51; born Letheringham, Suffolk.
Bertha Maud Seaman, 8, born Ipswich.
Margaret Eleanor Seaman, 4, born Ipswich.
1 servant.
1911 169, Mansfield Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
James was 19 years old, a Clerk in the Tobacco Trade. He was a boarder to Mrs Sarah Priestly, a widow.
James is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich
and on the war memorial at the Presbyterian Church formerly on London Road, Ipswich.
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