Name
Edward Frederick Sheffield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Flying Corps
7th Kite Balloon Sect. and General List
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY, MONT-ST. ELOI
I. M. 4.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 25 Jan 1896 in Hornsey, Middlesex son of Frederick and Florence Sheffield of Finsbury Park, London. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1905-11, he became an engineer with Vickers.
Wartime Service
Enlisted formerly M2/055065 Private, Army Service Corps as a motorcyclist and entered France on 28 Mar 1915 serving with Indian Contingent and then with the 38th (Welsh) Division. He then obtained a commission in the Royal Flying Corps on 8 Apr 1916 as an balloon observer and joined the 7th Kite Balloon Section. He was killed during a parachute descent when his parachute failed to open.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
