Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE EDWARD NELSON 19224. Born in Bridlington in 1891, Edward was the fourth of seven children to Alfred and Mary Nelson. A Farm Servant in Speeton before the war, he enlisted in Beverley on 18th May 1915 originally entering the army in the 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment before being transferred to the 11th after his arrival in France in June 1916. Edward had married Margaret May Johnson at St. Judes's in Hull on 17th August 1915, though their time together was all too brief; he was killed in action on 29th October 1916 as the Somme campaign ground on into the winter with no end in sight. Edward's body was never recovered and his name is one of the 72,000 commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to those who lost their lives on the Somme sector but have no known grave; he was 25 years old. Margaret received his effects: letters, some photographs, a shaving brush and his pocket book; not much to sure for the husband that never really was.

Jayne Billington