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Digital gallery of Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Edwin Desperques
Digital gallery of
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Edwin Desperques
Section of Hollybrook Memorial showing the name of Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Desperques. Image taken 10 June 2014
Digital gallery of
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Edwin Desperques
Cross of Sacrifice at Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, Hampshire, UK. Image taken 10 June 2014
Digital gallery of
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Edwin Desperques
Edwin Desperques was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands. He enlisted in the C.E.F. at St. Thomas, Ontario, in October 1915. In honoured memory.
Digital gallery of
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Edwin Desperques
Photo about 1914.
Edwin James Desperques, known as "Ted", after fighting in WWI, was on his way back to Canada, by ship, to muster out. He had not only seen the horrors of war but lost his only child by death. Ted jumped overboard and his body was never found.
His parents were Edwin James Desperques and Ellen Goman, of St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. His wife was Eva Hannah Barbara Byard.
Digital gallery of
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Edwin Desperques
From the London Free Press October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Section of Hollybrook Memorial showing the name of Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Desperques. Image taken 10 June 2014
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Cross of Sacrifice at Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, Hampshire, UK. Image taken 10 June 2014
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Edwin Desperques was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands. He enlisted in the C.E.F. at St. Thomas, Ontario, in October 1915. In honoured memory.
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Photo about 1914. Edwin James Desperques, known as "Ted", after fighting in WWI, was on his way back to Canada, by ship, to muster out. He had not only seen the horrors of war but lost his only child by death. Ted jumped overboard and his body was never found. His parents were Edwin James Desperques and Ellen Goman, of St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. His wife was Eva Hannah Barbara Byard.
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From the London Free Press October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 227 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL Hampshire, United Kingdom
HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL is situated within Hollybrook Cemetery, Southampton.
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