Found by Revd Nicholas Pye and posted on Twitter @RevdPye
Born in 1880 in West Derby, Liverpool, UK, Elijah’s parents were John and Martha Ann Cobham, of Waterloo, Liverpool and Crowborough, Sussex.
Educated at Glenalmond and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained an M.A., Elijah was ordained as a Church of England Deacon in 1906 and became a priest in 1907. He was Vicar of All Saints, Fishponds, Bristol, UK. In 1913, he became a Missionary of the Colonial and Continental Church Society, in Nakura, Kenya in East Africa, built the first Christian Church in Nakuru and worked as a Pastor in the Uasin Gishu Plateau area.
During the First World War, when the Germans invaded East Africa the Rev Elija Cobham initially served as a volunteer in the R.A.M.C. and later became Chaplain to the Forces, serving with the King's African Rifles Regiment.
NOTE
British Empire soldiers fought a four-year guerrilla campaign against a small German force in East Africa during the First World War. Despite being outnumbered, the German commander, Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, skillfully ran rings around his enemies, inflicting many casualties and avoiding defeat.
On 19th September 1917, Rev Elijah Cobham MC, Chaplain died of wounds sustained while trying to rescue a wounded officer. He was buried in Dar es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania, Africa. Grave reference: 5. A. 15.
In All Saints’ Church, Fishponds, a Memorial Window also commemorates Rev'd Cobham - “South Gloucestershire Gazette” - 19 May 1923
Additional Sources: https://www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk/_site/custom/database/?a=viewIndividual&pid=2&person=452
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22731742/elijah-cobham
