Capt Arthur de Bells Adam (MC)
1885 - 1916
CPL David Wallace Crawford
1887 - 1916
Lce-Corpl John Joseph Nickle
1894 - 1916
Pte 17911 Morton Neill
1897 - 1916
Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft
1883 - 1918
1885 - 1916
CPL David Wallace Crawford
1887 - 1916
Lce-Corpl John Joseph Nickle
1894 - 1916
Pte 17911 Morton Neill
1897 - 1916
Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft
1883 - 1918
Pte 26170 Edward Griffith Perry
- Age: 19
- From: Winsford
- Regiment: 1st Kings
- Died on Saturday 28th April 1917
- Commemorated at: Arras Memorial
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Edward Griffith Perry was born in Winsford, Cheshire in the September quarter of 1897, the only son of Joseph Perry and his wife Mary Jane (née Roberts). His father was from Winsford and his mother from Chester; they married in 1896 and had two children. Edward had a younger sister Lilian, born in 1900.
In 1901 the family is living at 18 Crook Lane, Winsford. His father is a general labourer, Edward is 3.
By 1911 they are boarding with his mother’s brother John Roberts and family at 351 Station Road, Winsford. His father is 40, a salt works labourer, and his mother is 43. Edward, 13 and Lilian, 11, are at school.
Edward enlisted in Liverpool as Private 26170, 17th Bn King’s (Liverpool) Regiment. Based on the mount of the War Gratuity, Edward would have enlisted in the summer of 1915, perhaps when he turned 18 years old.
He shipped to France with his battalion on 7th November 1915. At some point he was transferred to the 1st Bn K.L.R.
In March 1917 the 1st Bn moved up to Bailleul in preparation for the Battle of Arras, which began on 9th April. The War Diary records that on 28th April the battalion provided carrying parties for the 6th Brigade attack on Oppy Wood and village and that evening moved to dugouts near Roclincourt.
Edward was declared Missing on 28th April 1917 and was later presumed to have been killed on this date. He was 19 years of age.
His body was never recovered from the battlefield or was subsequently lost as his name is now commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France.
The ARRAS MEMORIAL commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of 1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these operations are commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bretonneux. A separate memorial remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. Both cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick. The memorial was unveiled by Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force on the 31 July 1932 (originally it had been scheduled for 15 May, but due to the sudden death of French President Doumer, as a mark of respect, the ceremony was postponed until July).
His parents received Edward’s Army effects and a War Gratuity of £9. They were awarded a pension of 5/- a week from December 1917.
His father, consumed with grief, and living at 336 Station Road, contacted the International Red Cross stating that Edward had been Missing since 28th April at Oppy Wood, but received a reply dated 14th September 1918, notifying him that they held no information. This was 17 months after Edward had gone missing and nine months after his death had been officially accepted and a pension awarded.
His father, consumed with grief, and living at 336 Station Road, contacted the International Red Cross stating that Edward had been Missing since 28th April at Oppy Wood, but received a reply dated 14th September 1918, notifying him that they held no information. This was 17 months after Edward had gone missing and nine months after his death had been officially accepted and a pension awarded.
His sister Lilian had a son in 1927 she named Edward .
In 1939 his parents are living at 91 Crook Lane, Winsford. His father is retired. Also in the household is married sister Lilian and her family.
His mother died in 1941 aged 73, and his father lived until 1950 and died at the age of 80.
Edward is commemorated on the following Memorials:
The Men of Winsford Memorial
Christ Church, Winsford
Cheshire Roll of Honour
We currently have no further information on Edward Griffith Perry, If you have or know someone who may be able to add to the history of this soldier, please contact us.
Edward Griffith joined the 17th Bn as Private 26170 later transferring to the 1st Bn of the Kings Liverpool Regiment. He was killed in action aged 19 on 28/04/1917.
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