Name
Edward Ronald Aslin
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
24240
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
X. D. 12.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Broxbourne memorials, Not on the Hoddesdon Memorials
Pre War
Edward Ronald ASLIN was born in Hoddesdon/Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, (depending on the document) in 1897, son of William James Aslin a Grocer and Edith Mary Aslin, there only child.
1901 Census records Edward aged 4, living with his father William a Grocer, Draper & Post Master in, High Street, Sutton, (Isley of Ely), Cambridgeshire, his mother Edith was visiting her Aunt Elizabeth Tigg in Greenwich, London, on the night of the Census.
1911 Census records Edward aged 14, living with his parents, at 30 Northfield Roald, Ponders End, Middx.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted at St Swithin’s Lane, London, posted to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), issued with the service number GS/24240. On completion of his training, Edward was sent to France on 1st April 1916, joining the 8th Battalion, in the field, he returned to the UK on 10th July 1916, possible wounded, returning to France on 23rd January 1917, joining the 7th Battalion on his return, he was transferred to the 10th Battalion, on the 9th February 1917.
He died on 21st March 1918, of wounds received in action. He is buried in Nine Elms British Cemetery in Belgium. Grave ref: X. D. 12. At the time of his death, he held the Rank of Corporal.
Additional Information
His mother received a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 6th November 1918. His effects of £8-06-11, pay owing and his war gratuity of £10-10-00, went to his father William.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
