Name
Edgar John Rayner
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/09/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
5407
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
1st/16th (County of London) Bn.
'D' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 13 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Edgar John Rayner was born in 1894 in Bishop's Stortford to John Harold and Elizabeth Catherine Rayner and baptised on 25 March 1894 at Holy Trinity Church, Bishop's Stortford.
On the 1901 Census, the family were living at Bartholomew Road, Bishop's Stortford where his father ran the Grocer's Shop.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Westminster and served with the London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles).
He was killed during the Battle of the Somme and his body was not recovered for burial, or not identified and is therefore commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Additional Information
Brother to Frank Rayner who died in October 1918, also named on the Holy Trinity and Town Memorials, Bishop's Stortford. Probate was granted to his father on 25 September with effects of £21.
He also served under service no. 552403 London Regt.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
