Name
Edward (George) Abbott
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/3342
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 15 to 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone and is commemorated on the the Loos Memorial to the Missing.
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey
Pre War
(George) Edward Abbott, born in Watford in 1884, was the elder son of George and Lydia Abbott. The family moved from Watford, firstly to 101 Villiers Road in Oxhey and then to 46 Upper Paddock Road, Oxhey.
In 1911 his father George Abbott was a labourer and Edward, aged 27, who lived at home with his parents, was employed as a car man by a coal merchant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Westminster with the Buffs East Kent Regiment, 8th Battalion as Private G/3342 and was killed in action on 26 September 1915 at the battle of Loos, the largest British offensive mounted that year on the Western Front.
He is remembered with honour on the Loos Memorial in France.
Additional Information
The vale of his effects were £2-3s-3d, Pay Owing and £3-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his father George.
He and his brother, James Henry Abbott, who was killed in 1914, are commemorated on the memorial at St Matthew’s Church, Oxhey.
With kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
