Lieutenant Arthur Edwin Durham
Royal Navy, H.M.S. Laforey
Killed in Action 23rd March 1917
Born in Burnley 26th September 1988
Baptised 4th November 1888 at St Matthews
Attended Naval school at Lee on Solent, Southampton
Commemorated on the Chatham Memorial, UK

Killed by a mine explosion in the Straits of Dover

Brother of Major William Glyn Wakeham Durham

Their father William Edward was the vicar at St. Matthews from 1888-1896.The family returned to the Devon area in 1889








 

 

 

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