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John Reginald Charles Edwards

10 August 2015 by SWM

J. R. C. Edwards
Service no, 701405
Lance Corporal, London Regiment, 1st/23rd Battalion
Killed in action, age 21 on 7 June 1917
Son of John and Louisa S. Edwards, of 37A Crimsworth Road, Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, London.
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

Information from the 1911 census

The Edwards family lived in 4 rooms at 37a Crimsworth Road, SW8. John Edwards, 48, was a coke porter at the gas works. He was born at Kington Magna, Dorset. Louisa Edwards, 43, was from Dorchester, Dorset. The couple had 9 children (2 had died), all born in Lambeth:
Daisy Edwards, 18, a domestic servant
John Edwards, 15, a page boy in private houses
Lily Edwards, 14
May Edwards, 12
Charles Edwards, 10
Henry Edwards, 9
Violet Edwards, 7
Frank Edwards, 4
Frederick Edwards, 2

Filed Under: E names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1917, age 21, Belgium, KIA

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