BORN BARRY, CARDIFF 1892. SON OF PETER CHRISTENESEN & SARAH ANN GALSWORTHY, LIVING AT THIS 1911 ADDRESS. HE LIVED IN MIDDLESBOROUGH IN 1901. EX CRANE FIREMAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX PRIVATE, 8871, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERREDAS PRIVATE, 235503, 2ND WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/07/1917, AGED 25. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, SARAH AND SISTER, KARINA.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT YPRES.
First name:
EDWARD THEOPHILUS
Military Number:
235503
Rank:
Private
Date Died
31/07/1917
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
25
8 CROMPTON VILLAS, ESCOURT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
