BORN HULL 1888. SON OF GEORGE & MARY JANE MATHEWS, OF HULL AND 22, CLAYTON STREET, NOTTINGHAM. LIVED IN NOTTINGHAM. WORKED AS A BOOT MAKER. HE WAS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 123 LBS WEIGHT, 34-36 INCH CHEST, ROUND SCAR ON SHOLDER, CHURCH OF ENGLAND RELIGION.
HE ENLISTED IN NOTTINGHAM, ON 11/11/1915/ CALLED UP ON 24/02/1916. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 3716, EAST SURREY REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 15TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS, ON 10/06/1918. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/09/1918, AGED 30. (SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS). COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFTTO HIS SISTER, AT 12, VERMONT VILLAS, VERMONT STREET, HULL (army records Next of kin)
First name:
EDWARD ELGY
Military Number:
102983
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
29/09/1918
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
30
12, VERMONT VILLAS, VERMONT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
