Name
Edward Charles Marshall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/06/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
42675
Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
10th Bn. (Grimsby Pals)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY, HAUCOURT
Plot XI, Row E, Grave 3.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of George Charles and Priscilla Pyke (nee RAMM) MARSHALL.
His parents married 19 February 1895 in Tittleshall with Godwick, Norfolk. George died 1922 in Watford aged 58, and was buried 6 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Priscilla died 1934 in Watford aged 73, and was buried 27 January, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Edward was born 1899 in Willesden, London.
On the 1901 Census, aged 2 he lived in Willesden, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 12, he lived in Stonebridge [Park], London, with his parents and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly Private 157188 The Queen’s Regiment.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died a prisoner of war at Rumancourt.
Additional Information
There are articles about Edward in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 25 May 1918, 10 August 1918, and 7 December 1918, the latter also including a Death announcement; plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 7 June 1919.
Recorded as Lance-Corporal only in the Borough Roll of Honour.
Unfortunately, Edward’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
