231925 Pte. Edward "Punch" Edwards 303rd Road Construction Comany Royal Engineers from:Storrington I don't know too much about my Great Grandfather except before the Great War he worked for the local council as a carter moving flints around for the local roads. I guess this is why he ended up in a road construction company but I would be interested to know why he joined up as he would have been in his late 40's.
He was injured on the 31 October 1917 (A communication Trench is mentioned) and suffered hearing loss. He was treated at the 47th Casualty Clearing Station which appears at that part of the war to be at Lozinghem in the Pas De Calais.
As a child my mother remembers him sitting in their house next to the fire where he would mutter "Tres bien" and she felt he suffered from shell shock. After the war he appears to have been employed by the local council and ended his days as a road sweeper.
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