32147. Corporal Harry Blackham 

11th. Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Born 1890 in Birmingham, Warwickshire. The 1911 Census records Harry as being single, 21 years of age, and a Gunner/Soldier serving in No. 80 Company, Royal Garrison Artillery in Singapore. 11th. Siege Battery embarked in France, 21 April 1915. Harry “Died”on Sunday 12th. November 1916, aged 26. Buried in Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, Pas de Calais, France, Plot II, Row J, Grave 3. Son of William Blackham a Sheet Iron Galvanizer Worker, and Charlotte Blackham of 11 Tilton Road, Small Heath, Birmingham. He had a brother: Frederick, and 3 sisters: Minnie, Ada and Elsie. The Royal Garrison Artillery, in addition to providing the mobile fighting units that went to the theatres of War, also manned No. 80 Company in Singapore.

Barry Jenkins