Name
Edmund Charles Dines
19 Jun 1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/10/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
56539
Lancashire Fusiliers
18th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 54 to 60 and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden, Harpenden Town Memorial
Pre War
Edmund Charles was born in Harpenden on 19 Jun 1899, the son of Albert Edward Dines and Agnes Hannah (nee Clark), the family lived in Luton Road, Harpenden.
Edmund had worked at Ayot Laundry and at a hat factory in Luton. He had been a chorister at St Nicholas Parish Church.
Wartime Service
Edmund had been enlisted in 18th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers as Private 56539.
They were out of the front in the vicinity of Ypres on 1st October 1918, when during shelling he was ordered by his sergeant to take cover in a nearby pillbox, however Edmund was killed a shell before reaching cover. He was 19 years old and it seems his remains were not recovered.
Edmund is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £6 15s 4d & arrears of 4s 8d paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
