WALTER HENRY GRAHAM
Born: 1888, Ipswich.
Died: 9th June 1915; age 27; KiA.
Residence: 6, Whitton Terrace, Norwich Road, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Date of Entry Therein: 27th April 1915 – France.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 16742
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.
Body was exhumed from Gordon House Cemetery, in February 1919, identified by a cross on grave and reburied.
Grave Reference:
II.A.1.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of Elsie May Graham, of 6, Whitton Terrace, Norwich Road, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1891 Britannia Road, Ipswich.
Walter was 2 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
James Graham, 52, an Army Pensioner, born Dumbarton, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.
Caroline Rebecca Graham (nee D’Souza), 40, born Belary, India.
Edith Graham, 12, born Kingston on Thames, Surrey.
Frances Graham, 10, born Kingston on Thames – died 1892, Ipswich.
Heneritta Graham, 7, born Kingston on Thames – died 1891, Ipswich.
William James Graham, 1, born Ipswich.
1901 The Street, Rushmere St. Andrew, Suffolk.
Walter was 12 years old, and living with his parents & siblings.
James, 64, an Army Pensioner – Army Scriture Reader.
Caroline, 50.
Florence Graham, 8, born Ipswich.
Frederick Graham, 6, born Ipswich.
1911 2, Whitton Terrace, Norwich Road, Ipswich.
Walter was 22 years old, a Cowman on Farm. He was married and Head of the Household.
Elsie, 19.
Phyllis 1.
Leslie, 4 months.
Walter’s mother, Caroline Rebecca Graham died 1911, Ipswich.
In 1909, Ipswich, Walter married, Elsie May Miller, born April 1891, Ipswich.
They had 4 children:
Phyllis Irene Graham, born July 1909, Ipswich.
Leslie Harold Graham, born November 1910, Ipswich.
Doris Kathleen Graham, born May 1912, Ipswich.
Gwendoline May Graham, born April 1914, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Elsie M. Graham – widow.
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