11690 Pte Edwin Hemingway, 9th Bn, West Riding Regt

11690 Private Edwin Hemingway of the 9th Battalion, West Riding Regiment, was killed in action on the 22nd February 1916.

Edwin was born at Leeds and enlisted at Bradford. He is possibly the same man whose birth was recorded in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1887 and who appears on the 1901 census as a 13-year-old weaver living with his widowed mother at Talbot Street, Batley. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission incorrectly records his number as 1690 although his medal index card (recording his name as Hemmingway) and Soldiers Died in The Great War, show it correctly.

Edwin joined the West Riding Regiment in September 1914 and he arrived in France on the 15th July 1915. He is buried in Dickebusch New Military Cemetery in Belgium.

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

Sources:

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