Southam,+Alfred

Private, 1st/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Service number 6586 and later, service number:203193. Date of Death: 24th February 1917. BASRA MEMORIAL. Panel 21 and 63. Served in the Hampshire Regiment 1st and 4th Battalions. Service number 203193. Died 24 -2 -1917. Killed in action in Mesopotamia aged 31 years. Name recorded on Panel 21 and 63 on the Basra Memorial and on his parents grave in the cemetery on Haworth Moor. His parents were Walter and Sarah Jane Southam of Station Road Haworth.
 * Alfred Southam**


 * Family grave in Keighley (Haworth) Cemetery:**



Born: Keighley, Yorks Resident: Haworth, Yorks Death Date: 24 Feb 1917. Death Location: Mesopotamia Enlisted: Bournemouth
 * SDGW information:**

Victory Medal: Roll: 0/1/103 B27. Page 2560 British War Medal: Roll: 0/1/103 B27. Page 2560 MID: London Gazette 15/8/17 Page 8333.
 * Medal index card information:**
 * First medal card:**
 * Second medal card:**

Of TUESDAY, the 8th, of AUGUST, 1917. WEDNESDAY, 15 AUGUST, 1917. War Office,15th August, 1917. The Secretary of State for War has received the following list of names of officers, warrant and non-commissioned officers and men, ladies and civilians, whose services have been brought to notice by Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maude, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, as deserving of special mention: — __Hampshire Regiment:__ Southam, No. 6586, Pte A. (killed).
 * The London Gazette:**

NB. The Basra memorial is in Iraq and until 1997 was on the main naval quay at Maqil on the Shatt- al Arab. Because of the sensitive nature of the area it was moved to a site on the road to Nasiriyah in the middle of the major WW1 battleground. It commemorates around 40,000 members of Commonwealth forces from 1914-1921 whose graves are not known.