MOWBRAY, Edwin Hilton

Pozieres Memorial, FranceCredit: CWGC

Private
2nd Battalion
Berkshire Regiment

Edwin was born 1886 in Newport to George Alfred & Mary Ann (nee STEPHENS) MOWBRAY. He married Nellie Gertrude GUSTAR who remarried shortly after his death & became Nellie SNOW. Edwin had previously lived at Ford House, East Street in Newport (1891), New Road in Wootton Bridge (1901) & finally at 1 Kingsfield Villas, Fairlee Road in Newport (1911).

Edwin, aged 31, was listed Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 2nd of April 1918. His body was never found or identified & so Edwin is commemorated by the Commission upon the Pozieres Memorial to The Missing, France together with 14,718 of his First World War comrades.

Edwin is also remembered on the County, Newport Borough & Wootton War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.