Name
Edward South
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1915
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19913
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew’s Church Buckland & Chipping Memorial, Buckland
Pre War
Born in Buckland, Herts. in 1880 son of Alfred and Eliza Jane South and christened in Buckland on 23 May 1880. He was living there in 1911 as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Royston, Herts. and entered France on 12 May 1915. The 1st Bedfordshires were in trenches at Hill 60 near Ypres. On 11 Jul 1915 the enemy blew up a very large mine near their trenches and five men were killed and two missing believed killed.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
