BORN HULL 23/01/1893. SON OF DAVID SCHRAMM (1850-1905) AND HARRIET CARRELL POUNSBURY (1858-1943), OF 58, MARMADUKE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS) & 3, RYDEL TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THE SURNAME IS OF GERMAN/DUTCH ORIGIN. HIS FATHER WAS A SHIP’S STEWARD. HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.
ARTHUR ATTENDED TRINITY HOUSE SCHOOL WITH BROTHERS JOHN HENRY AND DAVID SCHRAMM. HE LEFT SCHOOL ON 14/09/1907 AND JOINED THE GREAT NORTHERN FISHING COMPANY AS AN APPRENTICE. HIS ARMY RECORDS STATE THAT HE WAS ALSO A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY PORTER, LIVING AT 60, TADMAN STREET, HULL.
HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT, 5 INCHES TALL, 36.5-40 INCH CHEST, GOOD VISION, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
HE ENLISTED IN 1/4TH EYR HULL TERRITORIALS, ON 11TH MAY 1914. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 17/04/1915. WOUNDED AT YPRES. TRANSFERRED AS CORPORAL, 28464, 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 20/10/1918, AGED 25. BURIED AT MONTAY, FRANCE.
ARTHUR SCHRAMM, IS LISTED IN SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS & AS ARTHUR “SHRAM” IN CWGC RECORDS.
THERE IS SOME CONFUSION AS HIS OLDER BROTHER, JOHN HENRY SCHRAMM IS LISTED IN TRINITY HOUSE RECORDS AS DYING ON THE SAME DAY, IN THE SAME REGIMENT, BUT ANCESTRY RECORDS SUGGEST THAT JOHN HENRY DIED ACCIDENTALLY IN LIVERPOOL, ON 08/10/1898, AGED 19. (TRAPPED IN A PASSENGER LIFT) AND WAS NOT A WW1 CASULATY AT ALL.
JOHN HENRY SCHRAMM, IS RECORDED ON THE TRINITY HOUSE WW1 MEMORIAL, BUT ARTHUR SCHRAMM IS NOT?
