PO/11216 Petty Officer Charles George (or John?) CANHAM, R.N.
Details of death unknown
Ian Valentine based on Essex County Standard 24/10/1914 & research by John Stewart
PO/11216 Petty Officer Charles George (or John?) Canham † was born in 1890, at Black Horse cottages, Wivenhoe. He was the son of Charles & Louisa Canham.
He was a Joiner by trade and also a trumpet player in Wivenhoe Wesleyan Guild Brass Band.
He enlisted in the Royal Navy. No record on CWGC site but believed to have died in 1917.
He is named on the Wivenhoe War Memorial.
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Charles James Canham was born on 17 Nov 1889, son of Charles James Canham & Louisa Eliza (nee Allen). He died on 21 Mar 1921, only three months before the War Memorial was unveiled and as such is the last of the of the fallen from the Great War to be so commemorated. His grave can be found in the New Cemetery (Plot D286).
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