Saturday 19 December 2009

6018 L/Cpl Harry Edge, 1/5th Bn, Sherwood Foresters

6018 Lance-Corporal Harry Edge of the 1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, was killed in action on the 19th December 1916. He was born in New Mills, Derbyshire, was living at Stockport, Cheshire, and enlisted at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was the son of Stephen Baynton and Ellen Jane Edge, of 7, Bridge Mont, Whaley Bridge, Stockport.

He is buried at Foncquevillers Military Cemetery in France.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

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