EDWARDS Albert

This week’s casualty list under date November 26th returns 5302 Company Quartermaster-Sergt. A. Edwards, of the Worcestershire Regiment, as missing.  He is the son of Mrs Rea, of 14 Peter’s Finger, Bromsgrove, and has served in the Worcestershire Regiment for seventeen years.  He went through the South African War with the 1st Battalion, but he went to the front in France at the commencement of the present war with the 2nd Worcesters, to which he had previously been transferred.  He sent a post card to his mother on August 24th, but nothing has been heard of him since.  Writing home in November, Private Pratt, of the 2nd Worcesters, who lives at Rock Hill, stated that one day Edwards took his rifle and went out sniping, and had not been seen since.  Co.-Quartermaster-Sergt. Edwards has two brothers, both of whom are serving – Private W. Edwards, of the 3rd Worcesters, who was wounded in the fighting on the Aisne, and Private H. Edwards, who is with the 8th Worcesters at Maldon.

On November 26th (1914), 5302 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Edwards, who was 36 years of age was officially reported as missing.  All efforts to trace him failed, and his mother Mrs Rea, 14 Peter’s Finger, Bromsgrove, has now received notice that he was killed in action on November 10th.  He had served in the regiment for seventeen years. He went through the South African War with the 1st Battalion and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battalion with whom he proceeded to France with the British Expeditionary Force.  There are two brothers also serving – Lance-Corporal Harry Edwards, 8th Worcesters, and Lance-Corporal William Edwards, 1st Worcesters.  Both are in France and Lance-Corporal William Edwards wrote home recently stating he had met his brother Harry.

Albert Edwards has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.