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EDWARD ARTHUR ANDERSON
BORN BEVERLEY 1900. ALSO KNOWN AS EDWIN ARTHUR ANDERSON. SON OF EDWARD & MARY ANN ANDERSON, AT 19, TOMLINSON STREET, HULL, NEWINGTON, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A HOUSE PAINTER. THIRD OF FOUR CHILDREN.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 12817, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 82715, 15TH DURJHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION ON 10/09/1918, AGED 18. HE IS BURIED AT GOUZEAUCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "IN EVERLASTING MEMORY FROM MOTHER"
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, 31930, JOHN RODMAN ANDERSON, MACHINE GUN CORPS, WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 10/11/1916, AGED 18.
THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH MEMORIAL, BOULEVARD, HULL.
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