Will O'Brien Posted 17 April , 2005 Share Posted 17 April , 2005 As per CWGC Name: BRAHAM, PAULL Initials: P Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Serjeant Major Regiment: Army Service Corps Unit Text: Base Depot Mechanical Transport Secondary Unit Text: (E.E.F.). Age: 35 Date of Death: 18/04/1918 Service No: M2/046836 Additional information: Husband of G. Braham, of 16, Langham St., Marylebone, London. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: F. 123. Cemetery: ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 17 April , 2005 Author Share Posted 17 April , 2005 & the cemetery info Cemetery: ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY Country: Egypt Locality: unspecified Location Information: Hadra is a district on the eastern side of Alexandria and is south of the main carriageway to Aboukir, known as Al Horaya, near the University of Alexandria. The Cemetery is on the road Sharia Manara. The junction of this road and Al Horaya is diagonally opposite the University of Alexandria. Historical Information: In March 1915, the base of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force was transferred to Alexandria from Mudros and the city became a camp and hospital centre for Commonwealth and French troops. Among the medical units established there were the 17th, 19th, 21st, 78th and 87th General Hospitals and No 5 Indian Hospital. After the Gallipoli campaign of 1915, Alexandria remained an important hospital centre during later operations in Egypt and Palestine and the port was much used by hospital ships and troop transports bringing reinforcements and carrying the sick and wounded out of the theatres of war. This cemetery was begun in April 1916 when it was realised that the cemetery at Chatby would not be large enough. Most of the burials were made from the Alexandria hospitals, but a number of graves of December 1917 were due to the loss of the troop transports "Aragon" and "Osmanieh" which were sunk by torpedo and mine as they entered the port. The cemetery continued in use until December 1919 but later, some graves were brought in from small burial grounds in the western desert, Maadia and Rosetta. During the Second World War, Alexandria was again an important hospital centre, taking casualties from campaigns in the Western Desert, Greece, Crete, the Aegean Islands and the Mediterranean. Rest camps and hostels were also established there together with a powerful anti-aircraft base. Alexandria was also the communications centre for the middle and near east and became the headquarters of the Military Police. The cemetery at Hadra was extended for Second World War burials and was used from 1941. There are now 1,700 First World War burials in the cemetery and 1,305 from the Second World War. The cemetery also contains war graves of other nationalities and some non war burials. No. of Identified Casualties: 2979 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 17 April , 2005 Author Share Posted 17 April , 2005 A copy of Paull Braham's online MIC index entry can be seen here I see he started his active service as a Private Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 17 April , 2005 Author Share Posted 17 April , 2005 We have one Paull Braham on the 1901 census with the unusual double LL of the forename. A 15 year old Commercial Clerk born in Bath & living in St Pancras London...........whilst it's in the right age range, the age is out by a couple of years so this is a possible rather than a probable match at this stage & without further evidence..............No Paul Braham with one L in the same age range which might point to our Bath born chap being the right one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 18 April , 2005 Share Posted 18 April , 2005 Will It looks as if your Paull Braham on the 1901 census is the same. According to SDGW Paul Braham (Paul spelt with one 'l' on SDGW) was born: Bath En: London Res: Wandsworth. Died How: Died. Myrtle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebie9173 Posted 18 April , 2005 Share Posted 18 April , 2005 1891 Census also states age 5 at 6 Green Park, Walcot, Bath, son of Philip Braham, an Optician. Paul spelt with one "L" Mother Louisa Braham (nee Paul), brother George, age 4, mother-in-law Mary Paul and the boys Governess. Louisa was from Liverpool and Mary from Southwark. Philip, Paul and George born in Bath. Birth registration for Paull Braham, June quarter 1885, Bath Brother George Noel Braham, September 1886, Bath. In 1901 he was living with only his father, Philip, at 18 Leigh St, St Pancras, who by that time was a Mechanical Engineer... Louisa and George seem to have disappeared by 1901... Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 18 April , 2005 Author Share Posted 18 April , 2005 Will It looks as if your Paull Braham on the 1901 census is the same. According to SDGW Paul Braham (Paul spelt with one 'l' on SDGW) was born: Bath En: London Res: Wandsworth. Died How: Died. Myrtle <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1891 Census also states age 5 at 6 Green Park, Walcot, Bath, son of Philip Braham, an Optician. Paul spelt with one "L" Mother Louisa Braham (nee Paul), brother George, age 4, mother-in-law Mary Paul and the boys Governess. Louisa was from Liverpool and Mary from Southwark. Philip, Paul and George born in Bath. Birth registration for Paull Braham, June quarter 1885, Bath Brother George Noel Braham, September 1886, Bath. In 1901 he was living with only his father, Philip, at 18 Leigh St, St Pancras, who by that time was a Mechanical Engineer... Louisa and George seem to have disappeared by 1901... Steve. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Myrtle/Steve..............Excellent work..........looks like we've tracked down the right guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Braham Posted 30 July , 2006 Share Posted 30 July , 2006 Will It looks as if your Paull Braham on the 1901 census is the same. According to SDGW Paul Braham (Paul spelt with one 'l' on SDGW) was born: Bath En: London Res: Wandsworth. Died How: Died. Myrtle Myrtle Interesting as Paull Braham is listed on the Southampton Centoph, see: http://www.bitterne.net/cenotaph.htm Very curious as his links seem to have been with London! Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsA Posted 12 August , 2010 Share Posted 12 August , 2010 The Southampton link might be due to the fact that he had met Gota (actually Göta, but the dots tend to disappear in english) Hanson, a nurse from Sweden, who worked in the Southampton hospital where his brother George Noel worked in 1911. They married in 1916. George Noel served in the RAMC during WWI, finishing as a captain with a 1917 MC and a 14 star trio. He got an OBE after the war, with a lot of his post war career in Iraq (Baghdad). No further mention of Gota/Göta in the british archives, so she might have gone back to Sweden after the war. ATB, Lars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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