BORN DARLINGTON 10/08/1886. SON OF BROWN WALKER AND MARGARET POTTS. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN, INCLUDING SEVEN BROTHERS. EMPLOYED AS A SHIP’S MATE ON A HULL TUG. HE MARRIED IN 1905.
ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. HE DROWNED MINE SWEEPING, OFF ABERDEEN, ON 07/10/1915, AGED 27. HIS BODY WAS RECOVERED AND BURIED AT HEDON ROAD CEMETERY, EAST HULL. HE LEFT WIDOW ELIZA VINER, AND FIVE CHILDREN AT 7 CLIFTON TERRACE, VICTOR STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, WITH HIS PHOTO, ON 16/10/1915. HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS ALSO PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 14TH OCTOBER 1915. *
First name:
EDWIN JOSEPH THOMAS
Regiment:
Military Number:
2257
Rank:
Deck Hand
Date Died
07/10/1915
Place died:
Hull (Hedon Road) Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
27
