The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E Edwards

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Ernest EDWARDS, G/9418, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 15th June 1916, age 38.

Born Bromley, Kent.

9th June 1901, Bromley, Kent, married Mary Martha Marshall, of 85, Park End, Bromley, Kent.

1911 Census - 7 Glebe Road, Bromley, Kent - Ernest Edwards, head, age 33, married, boarding house keeper, born Bromley, Kent; Mary Martha Edwards, wife, age 33, married 10 years, 1 child, still alive, born Benenden, Kent; Ethel Florence Edward, daughter, age 8, born Bromley, Kent; Amy Nesbitt, aunt, age 81, widow, born Bromley, Kent; Cecil Watts? Coufauche?, boarder, age 22, single, hatters assistant, born Sherbourne, Dorset; Herbert George Sivyer, boarder, age 21, single, bank clerk, born Hawkhurst, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

Buried at Gunners Farm Military Cemetery, R. 4., Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial.

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