Name
Edgar Raymond Seabury
2/05/1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/09/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
London Regiment *1
13th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panels 52 to 54.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Broxbourne Town Memorial, St Augustine’s Church Memorial, Broxbourne, Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Edgar Raymond SEABURY was born at Burnt Mill, Netteswell, Essex, on 2nd May 1898, son of Edward Seabury a Maine Engineer, and Emily Seabury (nee Wyatt). The youngest of six children although one died in infancy.
1901 Census records Edgar aged 2, living with his parents, three sisters and brother Harold (12) at Burnt Mill, Netteswell, Essex. The family had a liv-in Domestic Servant. His mother Emily died in November 1902, aged 41.
1911 Census records Edgar aged 12, at school, living with his widowed father, and sister Gladys (16) at Albert Villa, Station Road, Broxbourne, Herts. and later moving to “Garth”, Broxbourne, Herts.
He was educated at St Catherine’s School, Broxbourne and Harlow Collage.
He was a keen sportsman, captained his College Cricket and Football teams, he was a bank clerk, and was unmarried when he was killed.
Wartime Service
Edgar enlisted in May 1916, aged 18, posted to the 13th (Kensington) Battalion, London Regiment (TF) as Private 492430. Gazetted, 2nd Lieutenant the following May 1917, arriving in France on 5th July 1917.
He was Killed in Action near St Julien, in Belgium, on 21st September 1917, while leading his men in an attack on enemy lines, when he was hit by shrapnel and killed instantly. He has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing. Panel 52 to 54.
Additional Information
His effects of £54-11s-09d, went to his father Edward Seabury.
He is recorded on the De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Kensington).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, Richard Barber
