BORN OWSTON FERRY, LINCOLN. ONE OF 4 BROTHERS. DIED OF WOUNDS AT GALLIPOLI, ON 25/08/1915, AGED 30. HIS BROTHER FRED DROWNED DURING ENEMY ACTION. HIS DEATH IS REPORTED IN THEHDM 27/08/1917 & 01/09/1917, AND IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 18/09/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. * .
I am grateful to Pete Bradshaw who sent the following information on 5/4/2015. Lance-Corpl. (Edward ) Charles CALAM, 10434, 9th West Yorks, who died on August 29th from wounds received in action in the Dardanelles. He was born in Gainsborough 30 years ago and lived with his parents in Spring Gardens. After serving his apprenticeship at Messrs Hinds, bakers, he expressed a desire to try a sea-faring life and signed aboard a fishing smack engaged in the Northern Seas. Returning to Gainsborough, he related some of his experiences of the rough life which obtains among the hardy sea-farers of different nations who reap the harvest of the Iceland fishing grounds. Gifted with great physical strength he was enabled to hold his own, though on one occasion in a struggle with a Dane, he was wounded with a knife and was laid up for some time. He was living at 244 Alliance Avenue, Anlaby Road, Hull, when war broke out and then joined the Army.
I can also send you the photo which appeared in he paper. Until I found your site I did not know he had a brother who was also killed in WW! Regards. Peter Bradshaw.
Photograph from the Gainsborough News 8.10.15
