BORN HULL 03/01/1892. SON OF THE LATE FREDERICK GRAHN & SARAH ELIZABETH OATES. SON OF A GERMAN, THAT MOVED TO HULL. WIFE EMILY & DAUGHTER IVY GRAHN LIVED AT THIS 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS. NEPHEW OF J & M WROE, 4 FRANCIS AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL. EDUCATED CONSTABLE STREET COUNCIL SCHOOL. EMPLOYED AS A LETTER PRESS COMPOSITOR. ENLISTED IN THE CAMERONIAN SCOTTISH RIFLES, ON 11/10/1916. SERVED IN FRANCE FROM 04/06/1917. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 20/09/1917, AGED 25.
HIS DEATH WAS RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNEY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 4, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS BROTHER, L/CPL. FREDERICK GRAHN, 22ND NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILERS, WAS KILLED AT ARRAS, ON 21/03/1918, AGED 24.
First name:
WILLIAM HENRY
Military Number:
203130
Rank:
Private
Date Died
20/09/1917
Place died:
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
25
