Name
Edward Victor Folds
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/11/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
890201
Royal Field Artillery
54th Div. Ammunition Col.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY
278
Lebanon
Headstone Inscription
Faithful Unto Death
UK & Other Memorials
St Leonard's Church Lychgate, Sandridge, Ind plaque on pew, St Leonard's Lychgate, Sandridge, Not on the Hertford memorials, We are not aware of any Colemans Green memorial
Pre War
The newspaper article which provided his photograph records Edward as of Coleman's Green.
Born 1896 in Sandridge and baptised 12 Apr 1896 in Sandridge as the son of William and Clara Folds.
Census; 1901 Census living at Coleman Green, Sandridge with parents and siblings and 1911 Census living at Coleman Green, Sandridge with parents and siblings. Employed as a house boy.
Wartime Service
Having joined the Royal Field Artillery he first went to France where he arrived on 18 Apr 1918. Remaining with the same regiment he moved to Egypt, there is no record of the date or if it was a unit or regimental move.
The newspaper article states that he died of Malaria in Egypt.
Additional Information
Back pay and gratuities of £31 14s 4d was pain to mother. His brother Ernest Folds also served and died. One pension card has a mix his and his brothers names and service numbers entered on it
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Taff Williams
Jonty Wild
