Lockham, Walter Jean

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF HENRY WEATHERILL LOCKHAM & ELIZA ELLEN BROWN, OF 3 PERSERVERENCE TERRACE, COGAN STREET, HULL.(HDM ADDRESS 21/10/1916) AND 17 ALBERT TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).

A BAKER FOR JACKSONS & SONS. HE RESIDED WITH HIS BROTHER, AT 2 COLUMBINE TERRACE, STRICKLAND STREET, HULL.

Sgt. Walter Lockham, 6th EYR

HE ENLISTED IN HULL WHEN WAR BEGAN. SERVED AT GALLIPOLI FROM 14/07/1915. SERVED AS SERGEANT, 10447, OF THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. KILLED ON THE SOMME, ON 26/09/1916, AGED 22. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.

HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS UNMARRIED WIFE,  MRS EMILY MARIA LOCKHAM, AT 9, CLAREMONT AVENUE, DAY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).

HIS FATHER AND BROTHERS, ALL SERVED IN THE WAR, AND WERE FEATURED AS A “PARIOTIC FAMILY” IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, 12/07/1915.
HE LEFT A BROTHER JAMES WILLIAM LOCKHAM (1889-1946) AND SISTERS, ROSE AND LILIAN.
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First name:
WALTER JEAN
Military Number:
10447
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
26/09/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
22
9, CLAREMONT AVENUE, DAY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK