Edgar Stebbings

Name

Edgar Stebbings
20/05/1893

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

19/04/1915
21

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
16937
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

FIRST D.C.L.I. CEMETERY, THE BLUFF
D. 17.
Belgium

Headstone Inscription

He has no family inscription on his Headstone.

UK & Other Memorials

Kings Langley Village Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Apsley Mills, Apsley

Pre War

Edgar Stebbings was born on 20 May 1893, in Kings Langley, Herts, the only son of James Edgar Stebbings and Ann Stebbings (nee Lea). His father James worked at the local watercress beds.

Edgar was Baptised on 16 August 1893, in the Parish Church, in Kings Langley.

1901 Census records Edgar aged 7, living with his parents, and three sisters Florence 11, Annie 10, and Nellie 4, in Church Lane, Kings Langley.

1911 Census records Edgar aged 17, and working as a Stereotyper, living at home with his parents, in Alexander Road, Kings Langley.

Wartime Service

Edgar enlisted in August 1914, at Watford, Herts. Posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 16937.

He arrived in France in February 1915 and was Killed in Action two months later, on 19 April, at the Battle of Hill 60, (17 April 1915 – 7 May 1915), when the trench he was in was hit by a shell.

Additional Information

His mother Ann was awarded a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 6 November 1918. The value of his effects was £4-16s-0d, Pay Owing and £3, War Gratuity which also went to his mother Ann.

Edgar is also commemorated on the family headstone in Kings Langley (All Saints) Churchyard. His part of the inscription reads:

Acknowledgments

Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild