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Spr. Edgar Seaton Metcalfe
British Army 218 Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:North Shields
(d.24th Jun 1917)
Edgar Seaton Metcalfe enlisted at Jarrow and served in 218th (Glasgow)Field Company, Royal Engineers. He died from wounds age 26 on the 24th June 1917 and is remembered at St. Paul's Church, He is buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery. His medal card records the award of the 1914 Star, War and Victory Medals also that he died from wounds.
Edgar was born in Jarrow 1891, son of Edgar Seaton and Rosine Metcalfe nee Slevin of 29 Donkin Terrace, North Shields. In the 1911 census Edgar(19) is lodging with the Schmeiter family at 34 Hugh Street, London working as a Pantryman at a hotel.