Hiram Percy Whittingham

No / Rank: 202186 Gunner
Regiment: Royal Artillery
Battalion: R.G.A.
Born: Machen
Residence: Machen, Mon
Date Died: 30.06.1920

Hiram Percy Whittingham of 8 Riverside Terrace , Machen, enlisted on 23 February 1916 and after basic training was posted to France with the British Expeditionary Force on 20 November 1917. He suffered gunshot wounds to the elbow and leg in July 1918 and was treated in the Military Hospital at Wimereux before being transferred to the V.A.D. Hospital in Dorchester on 7 July 1918.

He was discharged from the army, having been declared ‘no longer fit for war service’ on 1 November 1918 and was awarded the Silver War Badge (B3533) and a war pension for his disability.

Hiram Whitingham died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 on 30 June 1920 in Colliers Row, Machen.