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Ernest William Edwards

Lance Corporal

Service No. 200520

Age 21

Died on 2 March 1917

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

FONCQUEVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

Pas de Calais, France

Son of Arthur Jesse and Emma Edwards, of Butterley Park, Butterley, Derby.

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Bethany Gould

I wish I had known you and had a chance to thank you for everything you gave to us who survive you.

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Henry Harrison

Ernest, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Ernest, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalion...

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