Eddie, at 16, was determined to join up and do his bit for England.  Without telling his parents or his younger brother or his sister he lied about his age and joined the Essex Regiment.  After training he must have been sent to France quite soon because when he died in 1916 he was still only 17. .He lies in a beautifully kept British corner of the town cemetery in Béthune.  Deeply mourned by his heart-broken mother and father and his siblings, and still remembered today by us who never knew him.

Beryl White