Lance Serjeant 171823 Alexander OLDHAM
2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Killed in Action, Thursday 21st March 1918, France, Age 29
Home address:
319 Kenilworth Ave, Kew Beach, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Born:
1889, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Mary Ann Oldham and Samuel Thomas Oldham
1 Higham Lane, Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Married to Alice Maud Oldham (née. Pooley)
319 Kenilworth Ave, Kew Beach, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:
Carpenter
Enlisted:
Toronto, Canada
Remembered:
Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France, plot II, row C, grave 15.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Brother to Serjeant 11854 Arthur Oldham.
After enlisting he sailed with his Unit from Halifax, Nova Scotia for Liverpool on the SS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, on the 28th April 1916. At the time he was recovering from a hernia operation which had taken place on the 5th April. Not long after arriving in Britain he was admitted to Moore Hospital, Shorncliffe. Before being transferred to Canadian Division Convalescent Hospital, Epsom. Before finally being well enough to re-joining his regiment.
In the 1921 Cenotaph Unveiling Booklet his name is written as Alec. Oldham.