The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E G B Fordham

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Private Ebenezer George Bloomfield FORDHAM, G/18107, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of pulmonary tuberculosis, whilst Prisoner of War at Hut Hospital, Mulheim? / Ruhr, Germany, 27th December 1918, age 23.

1885 July, born Barningham, Suffolk, son of James and Agnes Fordham, of Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

1911 Census - Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St. Edmunds - James Fordham, head, age 62, married, farmer, own account, born Coney Weston, Suffolk; Agnes Fordham, wife, age 48, married 23 years, 9 children, 7 still alive, born Hopton, Suffolk; Frances Fordham, daughter, age 22, single, Post Office Clerk, Post Office, born Coney Weston, Suffolk; Edward Fordham, son, age 18, single, grocers assistant, born Coney Weston, Suffolk; Ebenezer Fordham, son, age 15, single, farmers son working on farm, born Barningham, Suffolk; Agatha Fordham, daughter, age 13, school, born Barningham, Suffolk; Octavia Fordham, daughter, age 11, school, born Barningham, Suffolk; Eric Fordham, son, age 9, school, born Barningham, Suffolk

Enlisted Ely, Cambridgeshire, age 19 years & 10 months, height 5ft 9 inches, weight 11 stone. Resided Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Home 23rd February 1915 to 26th August 1916; BEF 27th August 1916 to 9th October 1916; Home 10th October 1916 to 6th March 1917; BEF 7th March 1917 to 27th December 1918.

23rd February 1915, enlisted 2/1st Suffolk Yeomanry, Service No.2007; 25th March 1916, posted 3/1st Suffolk Yeomanry; 27th August 1916, posted 1/4th Suffolk Regiment; 27th August 1916, Folkestone, embarked; 27th August 1916, Boulogne, disembarked; 28th August 1916, 15 Infantry Base Depot; 7th September 1916, transferred to 4th Reserve Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th October 1916, Boulogne, 2nd Australian General Hospital, two shell wounds, lower extremity & above & below knee, to Hospital Ship David; 10th October 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th October1916 to 13th November 1916, 1st London General Hospital, (Section), St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, EC, gun shot wound, left leg; 22nd January 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th March 1917, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th March 1917, embarked / disembarked; 4th April 1917 to 10th Entrenching Battalion; 18th April 1917, joined Battalion, "B" Company; 21st July 1917, 38 Field Ambulance, P.U.O.; 29th July 1917, Rouen, 3 Stationary Hospital, P.U.O.; 30th July 1917, 2 Convalescent Depot; 17th August 1917, 2 Convalescent Camp; 5th October 1917, 40 Infantry Base Depot; 11th October 1917, proceeded to join Battalion; 3rd November 1917, joined Battalion, "B" Company; 30th November 1917, posted missing; 16th January 1918, Dulman, on Prisoner of War list.

19th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, James Fordham, age 70, Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St. Edmunds; Mother, Agnes Jane Fordham, age 57, Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St. Edmunds; Brothers - Edward James Bloomfield Fordham, age 26, Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St. Edmunds; Eric Edwin Bruce Fordham, age 17, Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St. Edmunds; Sisters - Frances Agnes Fordham, age 30, 88 High Street, ????, ????; Gwendoline Elizabeth Fordham, age 28, Landlord?, St Marks? Road, Maidenhead; Agatha Jemiima? Fordham, age 21, Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St. Edmunds; Octavia Helena Fordham, age 19, Cedar Villa, Barningham, Bury St. Edmunds.

Buried at Cologne Southern Cemetery, XVI. A. 49., Koln(Cologne), Nordrhein-Westfal, Germany.

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