Perry Lylie Edwards was born in 1897 in Bromyard, Hereford to parents Joseph and Louisa Jessie. Perry was a solder in the regular army at the outbreak of war, and landed in St. Nazaire on 10th September 1914 and would fight at the Battle of Aisne Heights with the 1st Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 16th Brigade, 6th Division. 

On the 29th October 1915, during the action at Hooge, Perry was in the reserve trenches supporting those on the front line. The war diary for that day reads:

"29/10/15 Hooge - A quiet day. A few shells near battalion HQ during the afternoon, doing no damage. One man is killed carrying rations at night."

Perry is buried at Menin Road South Military Cemetery (Plot III.E.34).

Rachel Ayres