Rank: Lieutenant
Regimental Number: Lieutenant
Place of Birth: York, Western Australia
Address: 22 Addis Street(WW1), Kalgoorlie
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Marjory Grace Edmondson, c/o Mrs Siggs
Enlistment Date: 15 November 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 16th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 26
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Manual Training instructor
Date of Death: 2 September 1918
Place of Burial: Hem Farm Military Cemetery (Plot II, Row K, Grave No. 1), Hem-Monacu, France
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HISTORY
Lieutenant EDWIN EDMONDSON.
Lieutenant Edwin Edmondson, 28th Battalion, son of James and Louisa Edmondson, Palmyra, East Fremantle, was born at York, W.A. He was married on the 30th October, 1915, to Margery Grace Siggs, daughter of Caleb and Lilian Siggs, 50 Shaftesbury-street, Leederville, and has one child, Kenrid Edwin Edmondson. He enlisted on the 10th October, 1916, and embarked for England with the 16th Reinforcements, 28th Battalion. Early in 1917 he crossed to France, where he contracted trench fever and was sent to hospital. On his recovery he rejoined his unit, but was gassed at Ypres in October, 1917, and sent to Wandsworth Hospital. In 1918 he returned to France, and on the 2nd September, 1918, he made the supreme sacrifice at Mont St. Quentin, at the age of 28 years.
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