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Sgt. George Samuel Graham
British Army 6th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Third Avenue, Plaistow, London
(d.17th Aug 1915)
My maternal grandfather George Graham, served in the D Company of 1/6th Essex Battalion, 54th Division and according to the War Diary, was killed in action on 17th August 1915 near Jepson’s Post on the Gallipoli peninsula after landing at Suvla on 12th August at 0.30. He went missing and was later confirmed to have been killed. He is remembered on one of the panels 144 to 150 of the Helles Memorial with others of his battalion. He had joined the Territorial Army in West Ham, London, Essex in 1909 and had volunteered for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.
He was born on 20th July 1881 in West Ham, London and married Sarah A R Stacey in 1901. In civil life he had worked for Tate & Lyle’s, together with his father. He left behind his wife and five children aged between 15 and 3 years.
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