Family :

Education & Career :

Doctor, Guy's Hospital

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

"The Battle of Loos (25 September to 18 October 1915) was the major battle on the Western Front in 1915, surpassing in every respect all that had gone before in terms of numbers of men and materiel committed to battle. The preliminary bombardment was the most violent to date and the battle was charaterised by the committment of Regular and Territorial battalions on a large scale, in which the Territorials performed just as well as the Regulars. As the battles on the Western Front in 1915 increased in size and violence, so the casualties increased in proportion: Neuve Chapelle 12,000, Aubers Ridge/Festubert 29,000 , Loos 60,000. 1916 was to take the casualty cost to another level. Loos was intended as a minor role in support of French efforts around Arras but circumstances reduced the French effort. It marked the first use of poison gas by the British. Once the initial assualt had failed the battle continued in a series of actions mostly focused on the northern sector around the tactically important Hohenzollern Redoubt."

Detail :

Lieutenant Edgar FAULKS, R.A.M.C., killed in action between September 25th and 27th September 1915, was 38 years of age and was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Faulks of Loughborough. He received his medical education at Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to the throat department. He took the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.London in 1902. At the time of his death he was senior assistant medical officer at the Bexley Asylumn, Kent. He joined the R.A.M.C. three months ago. He had only been at the front a few days before the action took place in which he lost his life. He died whilst attending to the wounds of a man in the front line. He died of wounds. BMJ; 9/10/1915 Journal of Mental Science 1916 An unusual memorial to him is recorded as part of the Bells of Loughborough Carillon, where Bell No 16 THE GIFT OF ARTHUR FAULKS IN MEMORY OF HIS SON EDGAR FAULKS LIEUT. R.A.M.C.

Masonic :

Steward

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley