HUMPHRIES Edwin Victor

  • First Name(s):
    Edwin 
    Victor 
  • Surname:
    HUMPHRIES
  • Service Number:
    242588
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
  • Battalion:
    5th Battalion
  • Unit:
    1st/5th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    3rd August 1917
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave III. B. 29
  • Place of Birth:
    Ipsley, Worcestershire, enlisted Redditch
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Edward George and Kate Trueman Humphries, 137 Evesham St., Redditch, Worcestershire

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HUMPHRIES Edwin Victor Is Named On These Memorials

Redditch Bates Hill Methodist Church now in Redditch Emmanuel Church
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Further Information About HUMPHRIES Edwin Victor

Evening Despatch, Saturday 8th September 1917:
Other Local Casualties
Died of Wounds
(242588) E. V. Humphries – King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regiment from Redditch

Evening Despatch courtesy of British Library image:
http://www.britishnewspaperarchives.co.uk

Edwin Victor Humphries was born in 1897 in the Bromsgrove District.  On the 1901 census Edwin Victor Humphries aged 3, lived with his parents Edward and Kate Humphries and siblings at 137 Evesham Street, Redditch.  On the 1911 census he appears as Edward Victor Humphries, aged 13, Butcher Boy, resident with his parents Edward George, Butcher and Kate Humphries, at 137 Evesham Street, Redditch.

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