Name
Edwin Folds
30th September 1898.
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/11/1918
20 years
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
202337
Royal Sussex Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE REJET-DE-BEAULIEU COMMUNAL CEMETERY
D. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Breachwood Green Baptist Chapel Memorial, Breachwood Green, St Mary's Church Memorial, King's Walden
Pre War
Edwin Folds was born in Breachwood Green/King's Walden, Hertfordshire, on 30th September 1898, son of Vince Folds (B 1859 in King's Walden, Herts) a Brickmaker and Sarah Ann (nee Houghton) Folds (B 1862 in Offley, Herts).
Baptised in St Mary’s Church, King's Walden, Herts, on 7th March 1899.
1901 Census records Edwin aged 2, living with his parents, sisters Eliza 20, Ada 17, Clara 13, Ellen 8, Gertrude 6 months, brothers Henry 15, George 11 and Sidney 5, in Breachwood Green, Herts.
Edwin attended Breachwood Green National School.
1911 Census records Edwin aged 13, at school, living with his parents, brothers George 21, Sidney 15 and sister Gertrude 10, in Breachwood Green, Herts.
Wartime Service
Edwin enlisted in Hitchin, Herts, posted to the 4th Battalion, (Territorial Force) Royal Sussex Regiment with the service Np 202337. Later transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment.
Edwin was Killed in an attack on the Sambre-Oise Canal on Monday 4th November 1918.
Battalion & RE Sappers put bridges across a 40ft canal. Killed 1 Officer & 8 Other Ranks. Wounded 7 Officers & 86 Other Ranks. Missing 4 Other Ranks.
He is buried in the CWGC Le Rejet-De-Beaulieu Communal Cemetery in France.
Additional Information
His effects of £10-00s-1d, pay owing and £9-10s-00d, War Gratuity went to his Father Vince Folds. 10th Brigade part of 4th Division. Brother of Henry Folds also killed in action 29th Sept 1918.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Paul Johnson, June Colegrove, Mark Morgan
