Name
Edward Charles James Toyer
21 August 1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/22061
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, FONTAINE-AU-BOIS
Landrecies Com. Cem. Mem. 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Radlett Town Memorial, Christchurch Memorial, Radlett, Not on the Bushey memorials
Pre War
Edward Charles James Toyer was born on 21 August 1899 in Radlett, Herts, the son of Arthur and Elizabeth Toyer, and baptised there on 8 October 1899.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at the home of his grandmother Sarah Palmer at The Folly, Aldenham, Herts where his father was working as a Plate Layer on the Railway. By 1911 they had moved to Station Cottages, Henley Hill, Radlett and on pension records his mother's address is given as Midland Cottages, Radlett.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford and served with the The Buffs (East Kent Regiment).
It is believed that Edward was captured and died in a prisoner of war camp from Spanish Flu. His body and that of ten other soldiers were buried by the Germans in 1918 in Landrecies Communal Cemetery but could not be located. They are commemorated by a special memorial in the Cross Roads Cemetery,
Fontaine-au-Bois, France. The memorial row is "to the memory of these ten soldiers of the British Empire, who were buried by the enemy in 1918 in Landrecies Communal Cemetery, but whose graves are now lost".
Additional Information
N.B. Not found on UK Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects.
Pension cards exist but give no indication of the amount of pension received.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
