Name
Edmund Dobson Hussey
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/04/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
21st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Panel 8.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Edmond Dobson Hussey was born in Ponders End, Middlesex, in 1896, son of Henry John Hussey a, Clerk and Barbara Hussey (nee Dobson). The eighth of eleven children, his eldest sister Margaret born in 1879, died in 1892 aged 13.
1901 Census records Edmond aged 4, living with his parents and eight siblings at, 18 Fairfield Road, Ponders End, Middx.
1911 Census, Edmund now aged 14, has left school and is recorded as a, Learner at the Electric Light Works, living with his parents and five siblings at, 7 Harewood Villa, Southbury Road, Enfield, Middx. His 3-year-old nephew Percy Hussey is living with the family.
Wartime Service
Edmond enlisted in the Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) and issued with the service number L/10196. He arrive in France on the 8th December 1915. Rising through the ranks to Sergeant, in December 1917, he was discharged from the Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) and given a commission.
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to the Duke of Cambridge ‘s Own (Middlesex Regiment) in February 1918.
Edmond was Killed in Action on the 9th April 1918 at the Battle of Estairs (Battle of Estairs 9th – 11th April 1918) (part of the Battle of the Lys 9th – 29th April 1918).
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
Additional Information
His effects of £38-3s-00d, pay owing went to his father Henry Hussey. The recipient of his war gratuity of £23-10s-00d, was not indicated.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
