Name
Edward Charles Edwin (*1)
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/40917
Middlesex Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldbury, Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute Memorial, Aldbury, Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
We believe that Edward Charles Edwin appears as Edward H Edwin on the Aldbury Memorials.
Edward Charles EDWIN was born in Winslow, Bucks, in the early part of 1884, son of George Edwin, a Stableman and Elizabeth Edwin (nee Cannon). One of their seven children, although two died in childhood.
1891 Census records Edward aged 7, at school, living with his parents, brother Arthur (13), sisters Bertha E. (10) and Ethal M. (1), at 15 Union Street, Winslow Cum Shipton, Bucks.
1901 Census, records Edward aged 17, working as a Drapers Carter, living with his parents, and four sisters Bertha (20), Ethal (11), Lucy (6), and Alice (3), in High Street, Village Lane, Winslow, Bucks. His father is recorded as a Domestic Gardener.
Edward married Annie Maria Jakeman in Tring, Herts, in the early part of 1907, the daughter of William and Emma Jakeman. They went on to have three children, Winifred (B1908), Edward (B1913) and William (B1915). His mother Elizabeth died in 1909.
1911 Census records Edward as Charles, married to Annie, he is employed as a Domestic Gardener, they have a daughter Winifred (2), and are living at 28 Park Road, Tring, Herts.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted at Dover, Kent, posted to the Royal West Kent Regiment and issued with the service number G/16905, later transferred to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) with the service number G/40917.
On completion of his training, he was sent to the Western Front, he was reported missing killed in action on 11th April 1917, during the Capture of Monchy-le-Preux, he has no known grave he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France. Bay 7.
Additional Information
Annie was awarded a grant of £5, and a widow’s pension of £1-6s-3d, a week from 10th December 1917, and his effects of £4-15s-08d, pay Owing and his war gratuity of £3. At the time Annie was living in Longfield Road, Tring, Herts.
1921 Census records Annie and the three children living at 1 Longfield Road, Tring, Herts.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database (SDITGW) records Edward as born in Winslow, Bucks and living in Dover, Kent when he enlisted in Tring, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
