Private Eustace Abraham

Army Number: 72093 (formerly 39844 Bedfordshire Regiment)

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Kettering, Northamptonshire. Son of Frank and Rose Eleanor Abraham, of 113, Kingsley Avenue, Kettering. He was a clerk and enlisted at Kettering on 17th July 1916. He qualified as a Lewis Gunner on 8th June 1917 and went to France on 3rd July 1917. He was transferred to the 2/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 27th July 1917. Killed in action, 21st March 1918, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7

Private Eustace Abraham is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Kettering War Memorial, Kettering, Northamptonshire.