Kirham, Samuel (Sam)

Private

No. 4458471, Durham Light Infantry

Died of disease on Saturday 2 March 1940 (aged 20)

Buried:

Holywood Cemetery, Co. Down (Protestant Ground Joint Grave 1264)

Commemorated:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

BIOGRAPHY

In some records his surname is spelt Kirkham.

Samuel Kirham’s birth was registered in the fourth quarter of 1919 in Ffestiniog, Merionethshire and his mother’s maiden name was Smith.

Samuel Kirham lived in Liverpool and, during the Second World War, he served with the Durham Light Infantry.

Stationed in Palace Barracks, Holywood, Private Samuel Kirham (No. 4458471) was 20 and unmarried when he died on 2 March 1940 in the Military Hospital, Knocknagoney.

Private Samuel Kirham (No. 4458471) died of tuberculous peritonitis and three days after he died he was buried in Holywood Cemetery.