Second Lieutenant John Radley Eddison

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Shireoaks, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, 6th March 1889. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Vessey Eddison, of Mount Vernon, Retford, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at Stancliffe Hall, near Matlock, Derbyshire and Pembroke College, Cambridge at which he was in the O.T.C. He was a junior schoolmaster at New Beacon School, Sevenoaks Kent. Was gazetted into the Sherwood Foresters on 14th October 1914. He went to France on 25th February 1915. Served in France and Flanders and was killed in action, 21st April 1915. aged 26, being shot by a German Sniper through the body while superintending repairs of wire entanglements at Kemmel, Belgium.

Buried : Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Row L, Grave 15.

Second Lieutenant John Radley Eddison is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Retford Market Square War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
St Luke’s Church Memorial, Shireoaks, Nottinghamshire.