Original WW1 Photographs of Stephen E. Cornish Grenadier Guards (An Australian Citizen) - Died of Wounds

Two original pictures removed from album, one with heavy crease mark, noted on reverse in a contemporary hand to be of Guardsman Stephen E. Cornish 21844 1st battalion Grenadier Guards who died 25th January 1916. He is also commemorated in the Australian war memorial and left an Australian widow. Born circa 1887 and would have been 29 when he died. I have included his CWGC certificate, his medal index card (he was entitled to a 1914-15 Star trio and noted as DoW not KIA) and a copy of the 1901 census showing his home then as in Woolpit, Suffolk with their extended family including three more brothers, one of whom Sidney Frank Cornish died in 1918 with the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Army No 28984).

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