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Rank : Company Sergeant Major

Army Number : 2011 and 240358

Unit : 1st (Vol) Bn, 1/5th Bn

Biography :

Home address given as Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire. Edwin Angrave enlisted at Loughborough on 21.4.1900 and served in the Boer War in the Leicestershire Volunteer Service Company attached to 1st Bn The Leicestershire Regiment. He was discharged on 30.5.1901 and awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal (with clasps Cape Colony and Transvaal). At the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted at Loughborough and served in 1/5th Bn, entering France in February 1915. As Company Sergeant Major of C Company throughout his time with the Bn in France and Flanders, he was awarded the French Médaille Militaire for good work in March 1918 (L.G. 28.5.1918 which indicates his Christian names as Ernest Arthur). Whilst 1/5th Bn was attacking the Hindenburg Line at Mannaquin Ridge near Magny-la-Fosse on 2.10.1918, an enemy shell hit C Coy headquarters and Edwin was struck in the back by a shell fragment; he died from his wounds on 5.10.1918, aged 38 years. He is buried at Tincourt New Cemetery, France.
He is commemorated on the Woodhouse Eaves memorial, on the memorial in St. Paul's Churchyard, Woodhouse Eaves (photo), and on the Carillon, Loughborough.

For more information visit: http://www.carillontower.org.uk/tigers

This page was last edited on 3.9.2019.

Date of Birth : c1880

Place of Birth : Nanpantan, Leicestershire

Date of Death : 5.10.1918

Place of Death : France

Civil Occupation : labourer and gardener

Period of Service : 1900-01; 1914-18

Conflicts : Boer War, WW1

Places Served : South Africa, England, France and Flanders