BORN KEYINGHAM 1895. FIFTH CHILD OF GEORGE WILLIAM & SARAH L EDLINGTON, OF THIS CWGC ADDRESS. WORKED ON SUNK ISLAND AS A HORSEMAN IN 1911. ALSO A HULL POLICEMAN. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, N THE 3RD COLDSTREAM GUARDS. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 20. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE.
HIS BROTHER, LANCE SERGEANT, JOHN HOLMES EDLINGTON SERVED WITH THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS, WAS AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL, AND WAS KILLED, ON 27/08/1918, AGED 24.
First name:
GEORGE HERBERT
Regiment:
Military Number:
11351
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
25/09/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
20
