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Pte. Arthur Lord Edwards
British Army 8th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Hucknall
(d.27th May 1918)
Arthur Lord Edwards died on Monday 27th May 1918 on the first day of the Third Battle of the Aisne. He is commemorated on the Soissons Memorial in France.
Sjt. Charles Edwards
British Army Suffolk Regiment
Charles Edwards
British Army 20th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. David Thomas Edwards
British Army 1/4 Btn. Territorials Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
David Edwards was a Territorial with the 1/4 Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He died in 1972.
Pte. David Edwards
British Army 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:10 Sells Green, Seend
(d.16th May 1915)
Pte. Edward Owen Edwards
Australian Imperial Force C Coy. 36th Btn.
from:Water Street, Smithfield, Country of Cumberland, NSW, Australia
(d.20th Dec 1917)
Edward Owen Edwards, aged 17 years, was killed in action on the battlefield near Armentieres France on 20th of December 1917. Known by the name Owen, he enlisted in the parish of Smithfield NSW Australia on 14th Jan 1916 three days after his 16th birthday. Owen declared his age as 18 years to enlist with his mates, and after initial training in Australia,embarked at Sydney HMAT A72 Beltana on 13.05.1916 bound for Southampton UK. Owen saw action in Northern France and Belgium for nearly 18 months before his death.
Owen was treated during this period for a number of conditions, such as piles, due to poor nutrition, and other battlefield injuries resulting in admission to field hospitals, and on one occasion repatriation to Great Britain with eye damage during May/June 1917 due to gas attack treatment, before returning to his unit and the front. Owen was involved in many battlefield regions and his army record includes locations such as Camiers, Atapies, Trouville, and Rouelles.
Owen rests in the Cite Bonjean military cemetery Armentieres Plot 1 Row C Grave 43. His grave originally showed his age as 19 years, however after research and the production of a certified copy of an original berth certificate, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission altered the date to 17 years.
On 19th September 2013 Barry D Gray from Perth Australia, visited his Great Uncle's grave and spread rich red radiated soil from his country of birth. A further memorial and photo can be found on the Cite Bonjean web site under Memorials. Rest in peace and never be forgotten.
Drv Edward Weir Edwards
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:1 Skene Square, Aberdeen, Scotland
My Grandfather Edward Edwards survived the WW1 War in France.
Pte. Edward Edwards
British Army 24th Denbighshire Yeomanry Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.9th March 1918)
Edward was the son of John and Catherine Edwards, Llanrhaeadr, Denbs.
Pte. Edward Edwards
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:6 Mill Terrace, Hendre, Mold
(d.16 August 1916)
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.
Pte. Edward "Nedann" Edwards
British Army 3rd Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Ruabon
Edward Edwards
British Army 10th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Rhydymwyn
(d.16th Aug 1916)
Pte. Ellis Edwards
British Army 5th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Denbigh
(d.4th November 1918)
Ellis was the son of Mrs Catherine Edwards, 6 Ysgubor Wen, Denbigh.
Pte. Emlyn Edwards
British Army 5th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Weston Rhyn, Oswestry
(d.8th Dec 1915)
Emlyn Edwards was the youngest of 5 siblings. He died at age 17, after fighting in Gallipoli. He is buried at Pieta War Cemetery, Malta.
Emrys Aneurin Edwards
Royal Navy HMS P18
from:Llangennech
Emrys Edwards served in HMS P18.
Pte. Enoch Edwards
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Abertillery
Gnr. Ernest Fred Edwards
British Army 45th Brigade, 57th Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Sutton,Surrey
(d.7th Nov 1918)
Pte. Frank Bartram Edwards
Australian Infantry Forces 39th Battalion
from:Beverley, Western Australia
(d.12th Oct 1917)
Pte. George Edwards
British Army 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment
from:North Ormesby Middlesbrough
(d.15th Jun 1915)
Pte. George Edwards served with the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment He was born in Mattishall, Dereham, Norfolk c.1886. The Son of Charles and Elizabeth Edwards of Jarrow. Husband of Mary Alice Edwards (nee Ward) of 19 South View Terrace North Ormesby Middlesbrough. George was killed in action on 15th June 1915 and is listed on the Memorial at Le Touret Cemetery in France.
The 1911 Census shows him as living at 26 Kinderley Street, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, George Edwards (24) General Labourer in Iron Foundry born Mattishall, Norfolk. with Mary Alice Edwards his wife (22) born at 101 Western Road, Jarrow and Elizabeth Edwards (mother)(59) Shopkeeper born Wallsoken, Cambridge.
Sgt. George Edwards
British Army 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards
Whilst clearing the household effects of my wife's recently deceased mother, her grandmother's diary/autograph book came to light. Apparently she acted as a volunteer visitor/nurse at Carmarthen Red Cross Hospital during WW1. In the book are several poems, comments and drawings by patients at that hospital. One such is by Sergeant George Edwards 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, written on 29th November 1914. He states that he was wounded in a bayonet charge at the battle of Aisne near Vendresse on October 4th 1914.
Sjt. George Edwards
British Army 1st Btn. Coldstream Guards
Sergeant George Edwards, 1st Battalion, was wounded in a bayonet charge at Aisne near Vendresse on October 4th 1914.
Mjr. George Richard Owen Edwards DSO
British Army 173 Brigade, CÂ Bty. Royal Field Artillery
(d.17th June 1917)
Major George Edwards died of wounds, aged 42, on 17th June 1917. He was the son of Mrs H.O. Edwards of Durban, Natal. He is buried in Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave II.J.1.
Pte. George Alexander Edwards
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Scots
from:Arbroath
George Edwards served with the 16th Royal Scots. After the war he and his wife ran a grocery business in Downfield and was an active member of the local golf club.
Cpl. Godfrey Charles Edwards
Army 9 Pack Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
These are some photos that I came across when I was going through some of my late Uncle's papers. He was Mr. Godfrey Charles Edwards born in 1899, at Crofton Farm, Great Bedwyn, Marlborough, Wiltshire. At 6ft 4ins tall, he joined the Army during 1914-18 war, becoming a Corporal, and he would appear to be in each of these pictures.2nd Pack Brigade. R.G.A. Royal Guard, 1921
9 Pack Battery at Lavington Camp.
9th. P. Bty. RGA
In 1921 he was serving with 2nd Pack Brigade. R.G.A. Also I would be very interested in any information anyone may have.
Rflmn. Harold Brinley Edwards
British Army 1st Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Swansea
(d.7th Sept 1915)
Rifleman Edwards died on 7th September 1915 and is buried in Cambrin Military Cemetery.
Lt.Com. Harrington Douty Edwards DSO
Royal Navy HMS E5
(d.7th March 1916)
Pte. Henry Humpherson Edwards
British Army 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:194, Yardley Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham.
(d.25th Oct 1918)
Harry Edwards died at the Royal Fortress Hospital, Cologne, Germany. Interred in the Sudfriedhof Cologne. Grave No VII E 2 . Harry died 18 days prior to Armistice being signed, in Koln of injuries sustained in Belgium he died on the 25th of October 1918. His Death Certificate States that Harry died a Prisoner of War of wounds.
The 10th Battalion was Formed at Warwick September 1914 part of Kitcheners 2nd new Army. They trained on Salisbury Plain in 57th Bde. 19th Div. and in December 1914 went into billets for the winter. In March 1915 19th Div. Concentrated around Tidworth. On the 17.7.15 they landed in France.
Harry died on the October 25th 1918, fourteen years before I was born. I seem to have been raised in his shadow. Harry was my nanny's younger brother. I was brought up at 194, Yardley Road where the family lived. I remember the huge photograph of Harry, in uniform, on the wall over the sideboard and the scroll and his medals in a large glass frame which were by the hearth until at least 1960.
Nanny always told me that on Christmas Eve 1918, Armistice having been signed on the 11th November, they were looking forward to Harry's prompt return from Flanders. As they sat down for lunch a telegram arrived to say that Harry had fallen, Nanny's mother, having lost her first baby boy as a baby never recovered from this great shock, the loss of her only surviving son, she did not have the strength to fight pneumonia, and died, 5 years later.
My bedroom was 'Harry's room', the constant reminder of my great uncle. Further research proved that he, in fact, died of wounds on the 25th October, a prisoner of war, in Cologne, and is interred in the military cemetery there.
In the 38 years I have lived in Germany I have never forgotten the great sacrifice he gave and the heartbreak, my great grandparents and sisters suffered. Nanny maintained that he had been shot in the lower back. he was just nineteen years old. Harry is buried in the Commonwealth War Cemetery Cologne (Germany - Nordrhein-Westfalen - Köln)
Cologne War Cemetery lies within a large civil cemetery known locally as Köln Südfriedhof. There are now 2,482 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the Commonwealth plots at Cologne, all of them POW's. The total includes special memorials to a number of casualties buried in other cemeteries in Germany whose graves could not be found. The Commonwealth section of the cemetery also contains 132 Second World War graves, mostly those of servicemen who died with the occupying forces. There are, in addition, 676 non-war graves and 29 burials of other nationalities.
Pte. Henry Edwards
British Army 20th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:56 Rosamund Street, Salford, Lancashire
Henry Edwards was the grandad I never met. My father used to talk of him with great affection. Henry joined up in August 1915 to E Company, 20th Lancashire Fusiliers (4th Salford Pals), Embarked for France in Jan 1916,and saw action at Peronne, The Somme, Arras, Bullecourt, Messines, Ypres, Passchendale, Cambrai and Haverincourt Wood, where he was gassed.
He did return to his Battalion and was with them until they were disbanded in Feb 1918. Here his Army life gets a bit confused for me as on one website it shows that he was transferred to the Labour Corps and on another he joined the 104th Brigade Machine Gun Company.
He returned from France in early 1919. He married my grandmother and raised a family. Henry died in 1945 and is buried in Agecroft Cemetery in Salford. A true Salford Pal through and through. God Bless you Grandad, and Thank you to all your Pals.
Pte. Hugh Owen Edwards
British Army 16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Bwlchgwyn, North Wales
(d.8th October 1918)
Hugh Edwards, son of William and Mary Jane Edwards of Holly House, Glascoed Road, Bwlchgwyn, North Wales, died in France on 8th of October 1918, aged 23. He is buried in Bois-Des-Angles British Cemetery at Crevecoeur-Sur-L'Escaut in France. His name appears on the War Memorial in Bwlchgwyn.
Rfm. J. R. Edwards
British Army 3rd Btn. The Rifle Brigade
from:11, Victoria Place, High Rd., Kilburn, London.
(d.7th Jun 1917)
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