Name
Edward Rowley Kelly
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/07/1915
17
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Border Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 35
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stained Glass Window, Hitchin Boys Grammar School, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of the late Lieut. Edward Kelly R.N. and Mrs Ethel Kelly. He started in the 2nd Form at Hitchin Grammar School in the Spring of 1905 and was in the Upper 5th Form by the Winter of 1910. He won an Open History Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford and had before him a most promising career.
He was a man of irrepressible wit and good spirits and it was said that memory of him would be treasured as something rare by all that knew him. He paid a visit to the school the week before he left for the Western Front.
Wartime Service
He arrived in France on the 8th June 1915 and was in the 3rd Battalion of the Border Regiment, although attached to the Lancashire Fusiliers at the time of his death.
This was probably the 2nd Battalion as it was the only Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers in France at that time. He was killed in action within a week of reaching the front.
Edward's body was not recovered and he is remembered on Panel 35 of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres in Belgium in the Border Regiment section.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
