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Title: info on Sgt Major W Bareham
Post by: footymum on Sunday 15 March 15 20:33 GMT (UK)
Looking for any information on Sgt Major W Bareham, commemorated on War Memorial in Little Clacton, Essex. Thankyou.
Title: Re: info on Sgt Major W Bareham
Post by: mmm45 on Sunday 15 March 15 21:22 GMT (UK)
Have you CWGC info?

Ady
Title: Re: info on Sgt Major W Bareham
Post by: footymum on Sunday 15 March 15 21:28 GMT (UK)
Cant find him anywhere, this is the memorial.
Title: Re: info on Sgt Major W Bareham
Post by: mmm45 on Sunday 15 March 15 21:53 GMT (UK)
Anything on the 11 census are W and C related? Also he may have died after discharge with no overseas service so no medal index card.
CWGC should list all dead BUT has omissions.

Ady
Title: Re: info on Sgt Major W Bareham
Post by: whiteout7 on Tuesday 17 March 15 07:12 GMT (UK)
I think this is Cpl C Bareham

BAREHAM, CHARLES MAURICE

Rank:
    Corporal
Service No:
    202477
Date of Death:
    04/05/1918
Age:
    34
Regiment/Service:
    South Wales Borderers
 
    2nd Bn.
Grave Reference:
    A. 26.
Cemetery:
    CINQ RUES BRITISH CEMETERY, HAZEBROUCK
Additional Information:
    Son of Maurice Charles and Emily Bareham, of The Street, Little Clacton, Essex.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/69306/BAREHAM,%20CHARLES%20MAURICE
Title: Re: info on Sgt Major W Bareham
Post by: whiteout7 on Tuesday 17 March 15 07:22 GMT (UK)
And Cpl C Barehams Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bareham&GSiman=1&GScid=2180106&GRid=14727134&

202477 Corporal Charles Maurice Bareham. 2nd (Brecknock) Btn. South Wales Borderers (Formerly 4096 Essex Regiment). Age 34. Born: Little Clacton, Essex. Enlisted: Colchester. Died of wounds. Son of Maurice Charles and Emily Bareham, of The Street, Little Clacton, Essex. 

Were they brothers? Sgt Major W Bareham does not seem to be buried in the same cemetery.
Title: Re: info on Sgt Major W Bareham
Post by: whiteout7 on Tuesday 17 March 15 07:29 GMT (UK)
This man also a Corporal should probaby be on this memorial too (is Clacton on Sea near Little Clacton?)

BAREHAM, WALTER CHARLES

Rank:
    Corporal
Service No:
    80403
Date of Death:
    11/04/1917
Age:
    20
Regiment/Service:
    Essex Yeomanry
Panel Reference:
    Bay 1.
Memorial:
    ARRAS MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
    Son of Lydia E. Bareham, of 2, Worthing Villas, Page Rd. Clacton-on-Sea, and the late Walter Charles Bareham.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/739796/BAREHAM,%20WALTER%20CHARLES

(Not a Sgt Major, do you know anymore details about your man?)