Alexander Abrahamson

Private Alexander Abrahamson was a Scottish soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Hutchesontown, the son of Polish-born parents Louis and Martha Abrahamson.
Abrahamson died on 26 February 1918, when the German U-boat UC-56 torpedoed the hospital ship HMHS Glenart Castle off Lundy Island. The vessel sank in eight minutes with the loss of 162 people.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Holybrook Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Abrahamson, Alexander, cwgc.org. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1918 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Polish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Hollybrook Memorial
Category:Privates