BORN HULL 1888. SON 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, GEORGE, ROBERT, DICK & SISTER EDIE. (1918 MILITARY VOTERS). & SISTER EDIE. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 206 BEAN STREET. WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER.
HE MARRIED SARAH ANN BATTY AT HULL, IN 1918.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMET AND ROYAL DEFENCE CORPS. DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY IN 1917. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 23/09/1920, AGED 32. BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS BROTHER FRED GRANTHAM DIED IN 1918, AGED 18. HIS OTHER BROTHERS, GUNNER, WILLIAM GRANTHAM, RFA, DIED IN 1917, AND GUNNER, ROBERT EDWARD GANTHAM, DIED OF WOUNDS IN 1922, AGED 28.
