Sub-Lieutenant, Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Died 25th August 1915. Aged 25. Son of Edwin and Louisa E. A. Farrow, of "Twyford," Hargate Drive, Hale, Cheshire; husband of Beatrice Mary Farrow. His brother John Worthington Farrow also fell. Buried in TWELVE TREE COPSE CEMETERY, Turkey. Special memorial C. 354. Note: There are now 3,360 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,226 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate many casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Extract from de Ruvigny's ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-1918, Part 2, page 116-7: FARROW, EDWIN PERCY, Sub-Lieut. Hawke (3rd) Battn. R.N.D., elder s. of Edwin Farrow, of Twyford, Hale, co. Cheshire, by his wife, Louisa E. A., dau. of John Percy; b. Manchester, 5 April, 1890; educ. Epworth College, Rhyl, and passing the Intermediate Arts Examination of London University, entered that college in Oct. 1908, where he was in residence, with an interval of two years due to ill health, until Nov. 1914, when he enlisted in the Public School Battn. of the R.N.D.; was promoted 1st Class Petty Officer 25 Jan. 1915, and obtained a commission as Sub-Lieut. in the R.N.V.R. 24 Feb. 1915, being appointed to the Hawke Battn. R.N.D.; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli from 10 May, and was killed in action there 25 Aug. following. His Commanding Officer wrote: “We went to the trenches on the Sunday, 22nd, and on the early morning of the 25th it happened. His platoon was employed in digging a new trench behind our support and firing line. He was buried in a small enclosed cemetery in the Gully Ravine — a very quiet beautiful spot — cn the left-hand side going up towards Krithia. . . - Your husband was beloved by his men, and one and all we feel his death very keenly,” and a brother officer “Always cheery and bright, no matter how he felt himself; his men adored him, and I miss him more than I can say when on duty In the trenches.” While at Epworth he was Senior Prefect, and twice won the Sports Championship, and at the London University captained the College Association Football XL in the sessions 1909-10 and 191011 , belng one of the Association Football Team sent by the University of London Athletic Union to play the leading club of Moscow. m. at All 8aints' Church, Fulham, 6 March, 1915, Beatrice Mary, yst. dau. of Dr. William Sandham Symes, late of Chesterfield, co. Derby; s.p.

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