BORN YORK, 28/11/1893. SON OF WILLIAM GEORGE LAISTER (1865-1941) & MILLICENT ANN WHEATCROFT (1861-1936), OF 13 GROVEHILL ROAD, BEVERLEY. HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND THREE SISTERS. A LAW CLERK. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED A PRISONER OF WAR, IN DARMSTADT, GERMANY, ON 30/10/1918, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, WALTER.
HE IS BURIED IN GERMANY. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BEVERLEY WAR MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL GARDENS.
First name:
WILLIAM GEORGE EDGAR
Military Number:
240804
Rank:
Private
Date Died
30/10/1918
Place died:
Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
Age:
24
13 GROVEHILL ROAD, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
