A Cape Town Rhodes Memorial tagged image from photographer – IWM Collections as published on Flickr.
Lieutenant James Rhodes Akam
Image by IWM Collections
18 Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)
Lt Akam served with the Bradford Pals. He was reported wounded and missing on 1 July 1916 at the start of the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Faces of the First World War
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