Private Edward Blackburn

Army Number : 93818

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Glossop, Derbyshire. Son of Thomas and Mary Black, of 289, High Street West, Glossop. He was a cotton spinner prior to enlisting at Glossop. He died of illness, 17th May 1918, whilst a prisoner of war. 

Buried: Mons (Bergen) Communal Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 8. Row C. Grave 12.

Private Edward Blackburn is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Glossop War Memorial, Glossop, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Joe Blackburn, 8th Battalion King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment also fell in the Great War.