JAMES EDWARD SEAMAN

Posted on 25th May 2016 by

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.

Suffolk Regiment, 1st/4th Battalion:

Posted in First World War, Suffolk Regiment