Saturday 9 October 2010

11881 L/Cpl Edwin W Kittle, 6th Bn, Ox & Bucks LI

11881 Lance-Corporal Edwin William Kittle of the 6th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was killed in action on the 9th October 1916. He was born in Pontlatlyn, Glamorganshire and was still living there when he enlisted at Rugby in late August or early September 1914.

At the time of his death he was 27 years old, the son of William and Eva Kittle of Osborne Villas, South End, Pontlatlyn, Cardiff. He is buried in the Guards' Cemetery at Lesboeufs.

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

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Officers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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