Name
David Southam
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
T/254561
Army Service Corps
904th Mechanical Transport Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MIKRA MEMORIAL
Greece
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green, All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green, John Dickinson Paper Mills Memorial, Croxley, Green, Rickmansworth Town Memorial, We are not aware of any Loudwater memorial
Pre War
Born on 11 Aug 1880 in Loudwater and baptised on 26 Sep 1880 in Chorleywood. His parents, David and Elizabeth Southam, lived at 25 Dickinson Square and had a total of 12 children.
He was living in Croxley Green, Rickmansworth from 1881 to 1911. In 1911 his father was a Dickinson’s pensioner. David was a paper cutter at Croxley Mill.
Enlisted at Watford.
Wartime Service
David Southam died at sea. He was amongst the 277 who drowned when the Arcadian, a Royal Mail Steam Packet ship converted to an armed merchant cruiser, was sunk by a U boat U.C.74) en route from Salonika to Alexandria in the Southern Aegean Southam while acting as a troopship. He is remembered on the Mikra memorial in Salonika, Greece. He was a Private in the Army Service Corps, 904th Mechanical Transport Company and he would have been about 36 when he died. His parents
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, ‘Croxley Green in the First World War’ by Brian Thomson (Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014)
