Name
Esau Foreman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/10/1919
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Ordinary Seaman
SS/8362
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Iron Duke
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAIDAR PASHA CEMETERY
Plot I, Row A, Grave 4.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Orford James and Eliza (nee BELL) FOREMAN of Watford.
His parents married 28 September 1884 at St James The Great, Castle Acre, Norfolk. Orford died 1920 in Watford aged 69, and was buried 5 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Eliza died 1929 in St Alban’s, Herts, aged 67, and was buried 9 May, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Esau was born 22 March 1900 in Mitcham, Surrey.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1901 Census, the whole family is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 11, he lived in Bushey, Herts, with his parents and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 24 May 1918 for a period of 5-7 years: a farm labourer, 5’4″ tall. He accidentally fell overboard and drowned in Constantinople harbour; his mother was informed of the death.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
