Service Life:

Campaigns:

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

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Died at Torquay at Torbay Hospital of Pneumonia.

Masonic :

The record of Loyal Lodge of Industry No. 421 show that Edwin is a joiner, having become a member on 3rd May 1910. He is a Tailor residing at South Molton. The lodge records show that he was in arrears from 1913, but perhaps war service, which was not recorded in the contribution record, prevented him from being excluded. His previous Lodge is listed as 2306.

Lodge No. 2306 relates to Toowong Lodge, at Toowong Queensland, where he was employed as an Outfitter. He was initiated in 1897, but resigned soon after.

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