Name
Edward Ethridge Glew
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/07/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
625
Essex Yeomanry
1st/1st
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHESHUNT BURIAL GROUND
16. EV.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Edward Etheridge Glew was born in Stoke Newington, London, Middx, in 1894, son of Edward Glew a, Merchants Clerk and Minnie Elizabeth Glew (nee Etheridge).
He was Baptised in the Parish of West Hackney, London, on the 1st April 1894.
1901 Census records Edward Jr. aged 7, at School, living with his parents and sister Elizabeth (11) at, Hope Villa, Cheshunt, Herts. His Grandmother Emma Fish is living with the family.
1911 Census. Edward Jr. (17), is employed as a Merchants Clerk, living with his parents and sister Minnie (21) at, “Ousden” Windmill Lane, Cheshunt, Herts. His Grandmother Emma Fish is still living with them.
In 1911 Edward Jr. enlisted in the 1st/1st Battalion, Essex Yeomanry, Territorial Force, with the service number 625. Joining “C” Squadron at its HQ at Waltham Abbey, Middx.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war, the 1st/1st Battalion, was mobilized for war service in August 1914. Edward Jr. volunteered for overseas service. Due to supply issues the Regiment was delayed and landed at Le Havre, France on 1st December 1914, joining the Royal Horse Guards (RHG), and the 10th Royal hussars, as part of the 8th Cavalry Brigade of the 3rd Cavalry Division in the area of Hazebrouck, France.
The Regiment saw its first action at the Battle of Frezenburg Ridge on the 13th May 1915. (Part of the 2nd Battle of Ypres). In pouring rain, they made a dismounted bayonet charge to recapture a trench that had earlier be taken by the enemy. They suffered heavy casualties from enemy artillery fire, of the 302 who went into action 161 were either killed, wounded or missing. Edward Jr. being one of the wounded. He was sent to the 11th General Hospital in Boulogne, France, and from there back to England, on the 21st June 1915. He died on 15th July 1915, at the 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell, Surrey. He was buried in his home town on the 8th July 1915, in the Cheshunt Burial Ground, Cheshunt, Herts.
Additional Information
His effects of £14-19s-3d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £4, went to his father Edward Glew his Administrator.
Edward's headstone (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
EDWARD ETHERIDGE CLEW COPRORAL ESSEX YEOMANRY ONLY SON OF EDWARD AND MINNIE CLEW OF CHESHUNT
DIED JULY 5TH 1915OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION MAY 13
AGED 21 YEARS.
EDWARD ETHERIDGE CLEW COPRORAL ESSEX YEOMANRY ONLY SON OF EDWARD AND MINNIE CLEW OF CHESHUNT
DIED JULY 5TH 1915OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION MAY 13
AGED 21 YEARS.
The remaining inscription indicates that his mother was later buried in the same plot.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
