Gash, Edward

SON OF EDWARD GEORGE GASH (1859-1927) AND MARY HANNAH SAYERS (1859-1923), FROM FILEY. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE FILEY WW1 MEMORIAL, NORTH YORKSHIRE WITH HIS BROTHER, DAVID GASH, OF THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY, DIED 1918 AND HIS HALF BROTHER, GUNNER, ALBERT STONEHOUSE, DIED IN EGYPT, ON 19/06/1916.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE EDWARD GASH 29769. Born Filey in December 1898, Edward was the youngest of four children to Edward George and Mary Gash of 4 Providence Place, Filey. A Gardener before the war, Edward was living at 4 Grimston Terrace, Clifton Street in Hull when he enlisted on 25th September 1916. His army records, describe him as 5 foot, 10.5 inches tall, 154 lbs weight, 38-40 inch chest size. He was called up the following February and joined the 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment on the Western Front, on 12th July 1918. Edward Gash was killed in action in the trenches around Le Cornet Perdu on 2nd August 1918 and his body was never recovered. He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial which bears the names of 11,000 men who died in that sector and who have no known grave; he was 19 years old. The Pals were involved in a series of raids on German front line positions around this time, designed with the express purpose of taking prisoners and keeping in touch with their enemy who by this time was making a series of small scale withdrawals to stronger positions where they hoped to lick their wounds and ride out the winter. Meanwhile, High Command was preparing to launch the offensive that would drive them back to Germany and decide the war.
His brother David Gash and half brother, Albert Stonehouse were also killed in the war.