Name
Eric Gramshaw
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/05/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
26111
Grenadier Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
Plot Q1, Row A, Grave 1.
France
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Evangelist Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Rose (nee HARDS) GRAMSHAW of Harrow-on-the Hill, Middx, and the late Frederic Knight GRAMSHAW.
His parents married 1882 in the Dartford, Kent, district. Frederic died 1 March 1896 in West Kensington, London, aged 44; Rose died 30 September 1923 in Harrow aged 76.
Eric was born 1883 in Colnbrook, Middx.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Census, aged 7 he lived in Stanwell, Middx, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1901 Census, a bank clerk aged 17, he lived in Lewisham, London, with his widowed mother and no siblings. On the 1911 Census, a banker’s clerk aged 27, he lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and no siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Whitehall, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died at 1 Australian General Hospital of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Eric’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
