Malvern College First World War Casualty

House and time at Malvern: No 2, 1906 - 1910.

Regiment: I. A. att Welch Regt.
Died: 25 May 1915 aged 24 in France. Died of wounds at Bailleul.
Cemetery: Bailleul Communal Extension I F 36

Son of J. H. Topham, Morley Hall, Derby, b. 1891.
Middle IV A—Matriculation Class. House Prefect.
Clare College, Cambridge; B.A. 1913; Indian Army 1913.
Great War, attached Welch Regt.

'On Aug 3rd last he was gazetted to the Indian Army on the nomination of the University. Early in March he proceeded to the front, being posted to the 1st Bn. Welsh Regiment. He died at a clearing station in France on May 25, after being severely wounded in the head on the previous day.' (Malvernian, Jun 1915).