Name
George William Ambrose Kingham
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/11/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
1st Bn., attached West African Frontier Force.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PADDINGTON OLD CEMETERY, KILBURN
1 D. 10387
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Wareside Village Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Wareside, Individual Plaque, Holy Trinity Church, Wareside
Pre War
Only son of George Frederick and Lila Emily Kingham, of 2, Brick Court, Temple, London, and Mardock Lodge, Wareside, Herts. Educated at the City of London School. Member of the Middle Temple; Freeman of the City of London. Born in London.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieut 5 Sep 1914. Sandhurst 9 Nov 1915 to July 1916. To France Sept 1916. Wounded, shell-shock 29 Nov 1916. After surgery returned to front Apr 1917. Applied to West African Frontier Force in Oct 1917 but was drowned when SS Umgeni was sunk off Scotland with all on board on the way there.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
