Name
Richard George Edwards
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/06/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
J/25767
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Tipperary."
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
12
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Aspenden Village Memorial, Aspenden,
Buntingford War Memorial, Buntingford
Pre War
Son of Walter Edward and Elizabeth Edwards, of Baldock Lane, Buntingford, Herts.
Richard was born in Buntingford on 15.5.1898 to Walter and Eliza Edwards. They lived in Meeting Lane, Buntingford. He was one of three boys in the family. One of his other brothers William was also killed during the First World War.
Wartime Service
Richard served on HMS Tipperary which was the flotilla leader for the 4th destroyer flotilla at the Battle of Jutland. On the 1.6.1916 the ship was hit by gunfire from SMS Westfalen, it sunk with 185 lost out of a crew of 197.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson, Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, Carol Emery
