World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Edwin Vincent Burgess
Forename(s):
Edwin Vincent
Surname:
Burgess
Initial(s):
E V
Service Number:
33121
Rank:
Lance-Corporal
Regiment:
Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Died:
07/02/1917
Aged:
23
Buried:
Hem Communal Cemetery
Service History:
Enlisted at Harringay, Middlesex.
Formerly 3186, Middlesex Regiment.
Died, France.
Background:
According to 'Soldiers Died...' & Ancestry.co.uk, born at Port Kee, Isle of Skye but the listing from http://www.fusilier.co.uk/military/amble_war_memorial.htm & the CWGC's website records Burgess as having been born at Kincardine, Fife, the son of Robert James & Minnie Eleanor Burgess, of Beaconsfield Terrace, Amble, Northumberland.
Resident at Amble, Northumberland.
Local Memorial:
Amble War Memorial