RICE, Edgar James

Credit: Gary Newman

Private

19th Battalion

Lancasire Fusiliers

Edgar was born 1887 in Carisbrooke to James & Julia Kate (nee ASH) RICE. He married Lilian Ablitt MORRIS in 1913 at the United Methodist Chapel, Quay Street in Newport. Julia was living at ‘Maydene’ Princes Road in Freshwater at the time of Edgar’s death.

Edgar had previously lived at ‘Reeds’ Alvington, Carisbrooke (1891), & New Park Farm, Carisbrooke (1901 & 1911).

Edgar was Killed in Action, aged 30, on the 10th of October 1917, & buried beneath a Commission Headstone in Section I Row D Grave 1 at the Aeroplane Cemetery in Belgium. His headstone bears the Family Inscription: THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES FOND MEMORIES CLING FROM HIS LOVING WIFE AND DAUGHTER, alongside 1,104 of his comrades.

He is also remembered on the County & Carisbrooke War Memorials.

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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.