BORN LLANANBEBLIG, CANARVON, WALES, 1881. ONLY SON OF JOSEPH AND MARGARET BANHAM. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. A FORMER SOLDIER FOR 6 YEARS. TIME EXPIRED AND DISCHARGED ON 13/04/1906.
HUSBAND OF ANNIE. THEY HAD THREE DAUGHTERS, MAGGIE, ANNIE AND EMILY.
HE ENLISTED ON 08/09/1914. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 19054, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. PROMOTED CORPORAL, ON 10/10/1914. TRANSFERRED AND PROMOTED TO SERGEANT, 265520, 4TH ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS. SERVED AT GALLIPOLI. INVALIDED TO ENGLAND WITH DYSENTERY. POSTED TO EGYPT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/06/1918. BURIED AT AVAL WOOD CEMETERY, FRANCE. HE HAD SERVED 3 YEARS AND 294 DAYS.
HE IS LISTED IN ST BARNABAS BOOK, ST MATTHEW’S CHURCH, HULL.
Note: Harold Banham at 42 Dehli Street, Hull; John Thomas Banham, at 258 Hessle Road; (Absent Voters records)
