Tiny Somme Gray1

(20 March 1917 - )
FatherHerbert Walter Gray2 (c 1883 - 22 Oct 1916)
MotherEmma Read3
     Tiny Somme Gray was born on 20 March 1917 at Northfleet, Kent, England, .1 She was the daughter of Herbert Walter Gray and Emma Read.2,3

Citations

  1. [S587] WW1: A baby called Somme, online http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31967883
  2. [S587] WW1: A baby called Somme, online http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31967883, Her father Herbert Gray was killed in the Battle of the Somme just five months before her birth. ... Pte Herbert Gray of The Sherwood Foresters was killed.
  3. [S587] WW1: A baby called Somme, online http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31967883, Herbert's widow Emma never talked about his death with her daughter and never really explained why she called her only child Somme.