No. 6968529, Rifleman, Edward WOODHAM
Aged 25
medal entitlement not known
Tower Hamlet Rifles, Rifle Brigade, attached 8th Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died on 27th October 1945
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Edward Woodham was born in 1920 (Mile End Q3-1920 1C:642) son of Herbert and Matilda WOODHAM (née JAYE). His mother was a widow in 1939 at 19
Umberstone Street, Stepney, she married Jan H.GARRELS in 1953 in Bethnal Green, and died in Tower Hamlets in 1983
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His death was registered in Cambridge (Q4-1945 3B:364)
His death certificate says he was killed outright when his motorcycle, hitting a beetroot in the road, crashed into a sign post on the Freckenham Road, Isleham on 27th October 1945 |
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