Name
Edward Prangle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
Army Service Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Edward Prangle was associated with Abbots Langley through marriage. On 5th October 1918 he married Ethel Linforth, from Abbots Langley at St Lawrence Church in the village. Edward was recorded in the 1891 Census living with his mother, Ellen Prangle, and his brother and sister, at his grandfather’s home at Kings Somborne, near Stocksbridge in Hampshire. He had been born in the winter of 1890 at Hursley in Hampshire.
It is not known where his father George was at the this time, however by the time of the 1901 Census he had returned to the family home, and three more children had been born. George Prangle worked as a Carter on a Ferry in 1901, and the family lived at Sparsholt Road, Southampton. Edward was not recorded at the family home in the 1911 Census.
At the time of his wedding in October 1918, Edward served as a Private with the Army Service Corps (ASC),and gave a home address at Mickleham in Surrey. By the time he was demobilised his Medal Roll Card indicated that he had reached the rank of Acting Corporal.
Edith Linforth had been born at Wandsworth in 1900, and in the 1911 Census she was living with her parents, two brothers and a servant at the High Street in Abbots Langley. Her youngest brother, Harry, had been born at Abbots Langley in 1906 so it can be assumed that the family had come to the village by that date. Her father, Harry (senior) worked as a Hairdresser.
In the 1911 Census, although the family were recorded at Abbots Langley, the Census Enumerator noted that only the servant was at home when he called, as the family were away from the property.
Edward Prangle survived the War, but it is not known whether he and his wife returned to live at Abbots Langley after he was demobilised.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
