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Name: Edwin Powell Folley
Service Number: 6037
Place of Birth: Balhannah
Date of Birth: 20 May 1888
Place of Enlistment: Blackboy Hill, Perth W.A.
Date of Enlistment: 22 June 1916
Age at Enlistment: 28 years 1 month
Next of Kin: Wife, Myrtle Folley
Occupation: Clerk
Religion: Baptist
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Edwin left Fremantle on the Argyllshire on 9 November 1916 with the 28th Battalion. While undergoing mandatory training in England he was hospitalised with mumps. He was sent to France on 28 April 1917 and was appointed Lance Corporal on 4 June, with the further promotion to 2nd Lieutenant on 31 January 1918. Edwin was sent to the Officers’ Training College at Oxford, England on 12 February, then the Corps School in France on 3 August before rejoining his battalion on 16 August.
Edwin Folley was killed in action at Mont St. Quentin , France on 3 September 1918. He was buried by the 28th Battalion in Feuillers Military Cemetery with a cross erected. Myrtle received Edwin’s Memorial Scroll, Victory Medal, Memorial Plaque, his personal effects and 3 photos of his grave site between January 1921 and April 1923. His remains were re-interred at Hem Farm Military Cemetery near Peronne.
Myrtle wrote to Army Base Records Melbourne requesting the following inscription be placed on her husband’s gravestone, “To live in those we love is not to die.” She was asked to abbreviate it as it was considered excessive in length.