Lt Eric Graham 3rd South Lancashire Regiment

Heres a peculiar one .....

Lt Eric Graham 3rd South Lancashire Regiment killed in action Thiepval France 3rd July 1916

I can't find an MIC or anything in CWGC ..... can anybody else find anything please ?

He's commemorated on the family gravestone in Ulverston .......

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seant_25/531883802/

 

I think Graham is his middle name Annie, and it is Eric Graham Fletcher

The date of death is right

Name: FLETCHER, ERIC GRAHAM
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: South Lancashire Regiment
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 03/07/1916
Additional information: Son of John and Mary Nicholson Fletcher, of 15, Church Walk, Ulverston, Lancs.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. Q. 2.
Cemetery: DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEV

 

You are so smart Wendi !!

I see the name Fletcher now on the bottom ...... !!

Thank you so much ... that has been on the back burner for ages !!

Annie

 

I don't believe it .... lookee here ....... !!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seant_25/1459455840/

 

Do you know! I didn't see that until you pointed it out, but glad we've solved another one I posted his MIC elsewhere for you

Wendi

 

I got it Wendi .... thank you !! ..... Stephen Nulty sent me this today .... sounds awful doesn't it ?

 

Just awful, and probably why the family felt the need to commemorate him on the family stone .....