Leonard Edge

Urmston Cemetery, Lancashire

Leonard Edge

Shoeing Smith No. L/9936 149th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.

Died of wounds: Sheffield 6 March 1916. Age 36.

Buried in Urmston Cemetery, Lancashire. V.C.E.52.

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Born in Malpas in 1879 (baptised 2nd November 1879)

Third son of John and Sarah Edge of Church Street, Malpas.

Married Ann Wain of 181 Stretford, near Urmston, Lancashire in 1900.

Father to Ann, John William and Edith.

The 1911 Census shows Leonard as a farm labourer.

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Leonard was invalided home from France and died of his wounds in Sheffield.

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"GRANT HIM O' LORD, ETERNAL REST"