Edgard Fleet

Edgar Fleet

Private No. 21235

7th Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.

Killed in action in France 9 April 1917. Age 23.

Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7.

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Born in Malpas in 1893 (baptised 23rd August 1893)

Second son of John and Elizabeth Fleet of Church Street, Malpas.

The 1911 Census shows Edgar as a postman in Ellesmere, Shropshire.

Edgar’s younger brother, Wilfred, also lost his life in the Great War'