Southam,+Daniel

Daniel Southam

Served in Yorks and Lancs Regiment as a Corporal Regimental number 53693

Recorded on Haworth War Memorial as one of the fallen but actually died in Keighley in 1923 aged 46 years.

Born in 1877 he was a woolcomber and the son of Walter and Sarah Southam of Station Road Haworth. The family had moved from Foleshill in Warwickshire where all of the several Southam children were born. All were textile workers.

Daniel married Miriam in 1902 and had at least one child, Jack born in 1908.

He was brother to Alfred Southam who was killed in action in Mesopotamia in 1917.