Name
Joseph Charles Edwards
6 April 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3/34662
East Surrey Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXI. BB. 16.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS
UK & Other Memorials
Radlett Town Memorial, St Margaret's Church Memorial, Ridge, St Margaret's Church Roll of Honour, Ridge, Not on the Cottered memorials
Pre War
Joseph Charles Edwards was born on 6 April 1890 in Cottered, Herts, the son of William and Rebecca Edwards, and baptised on 15 June 1890 at Cottered. On the 1891 Census, the family were living at 34 Cottered Street, Cottered, where his father was an agricultural labourer and Joseph was the youngest of six children. They had moved to Aldenham in 1901.
By 1911 he had left home and was living at Gardeners Botheys, Claremont Gardens, Esher, Surrey with 5 other Domestic Gardeners who also worked on the estate. (At the time, Claremont was the residence of Princess Helena (widow of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany) and her two children, Princess Alice and Prince Charles, Duke of Albany.
He married Daisy Grace Carter at St Giles, South Mimms, Herts on 18 August 1915. They had two children, Stanley (1916) and Kenneth (1917) and Daisy had a son William born 1910.
She later lived at Deaves Hall Cottage, Ridge, Barnet, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Woolwich, Kent and initially served in the Army Service Corps under reg. no. 159495, later transferring into the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment.
He died from wounds on 30 October 1917 sustained during the Battle of Passchendaele (3rd Battle of Ypres).
Additional Information
His wife, Mrs D G Edwards, Newberries Farm, Radlett, Herts. ordered his headstone inscription: "UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS". His widow received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £3 6s 6d. She also received a pension of £1 5s 5d a week for herself and the children.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
