Name
Edwin Spencer Chandler
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/02/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 39 and 41.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Caldicott School Memorial, Hitchin*1
Pre War
He was born on the 25th June 1895 the son of Maria Corderoy Chandler, of 7, Albany Rd., St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, and the late George Chandler. His home was at Hampden House, Sutton in Surrey.
He entered the Caldicott School in September 1908 and left in 1909 going to the Leys at Cambridge with a £20 Exhibition.
His education appears to be his only connection to Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
At the time of his death he was serving with the 10th Battalion Notts & Derby Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) which was part of the 51st Brigade of the 17th Division of V Corps in the 2nd Army during the Actions of the Bluff. He was killed in action between the Ypres-Comines Canal and Railway when the enemy captured about 600 yards of the ‘International’ trench just north of Ypres in Belgium.
He was killed on the 14th February 1916 aged 20 years.
He has no known grave but is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres in Belgium.
Additional Information
He may appear as B Chandler on the school memorial. *1 This memorial (names only) was removed to Caldicott School, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, when the school moved to that site.
Acknowledgments
Terry Ransome, www.caldicott.com/HistoryWW2.aspx, Jonty Wild
