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EDWARDS, Eric Stanley
Personal Details
Service Number: | 5087 |
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Enlisted: | 16 January 1916 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
Born: | York, Western Australia, 18 May 1884 |
Home Town: | Denmark, Denmark, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Beverley School, Western Australia |
Occupation: | Miller |
Died: | Died of wounds, Bapaume, Somme Sector, France, 1 April 1917, aged 32 years |
Cemetery: |
Pozières British Cemetery Plot II, Row D, Grave No. 41 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Beverley St Mary's Anglican Church Lynch Gate, Beverley War Memorial, York War Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
16 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, SN 5087, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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31 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, SN 5087, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
31 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, SN 5087, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Shropshire, Fremantle | |
7 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
20 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
1 Apr 1917: | Involvement Private, SN 5087, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Eric Stanley EDWARDS was born in York, Western Australia in 1885
His parents were William John EDWARDS & Maria Ann MOULTON who married in Beverley, WA in 1881
He married Ivy May OLIVER in WA in 1916