BORN HULL 1894. ON OF WILLIAM GRANTHAM (1860-1922) & MINNIE MIDDLETON (1859-1944), OF 12 OCKLEY TERRACE, WEST PARADE AND 206 BEAN STREET, HULL WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. BROTHER OF HARRY, TOM, GEORGE, ROBERT, DICK & SISTER EDIE. (1918 MILITARY VOTERS).
A FORMER BRICKLAYER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. WOUNDED AND DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY. HE MARRIED. ETHELM LAMBERT, AT HULL, IN APRIL 1920 AND LIVED AT 87, BOULEVARD, HULL.
HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 09/01/1922, AGED 27. BURIED AT SPRING BANK WESTERN CEMETERY (C/137, G/13362, Burial records book entry No 52032). NO CWGC RECORDS OF HS DEATH.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, THOMAS GRANTHAM, ROYAL DEFENCE CORPS, WAS DISCHARGED IN 1917, AND HAD DIED OF WOUNDS IN 1920. HIS OTHER BROTHER, GUNNER, WILLIAM GRANTHAM, RFA, WAS KILLED IN 1917. ANOTHER BROTHER FRED, DIED IN 1916, AGED 17.
