Sergeant Robert Henry Edwards

Army Number: 6702

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: Military Medal

Military Medal
British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Was a groom. Enlisted at Worksop, Nottinghamshire September 1914. Went to France on 26th August 1915. Was awarded the M.M. London Gazette on 21st October 1918. He died on 11th October 1918 as a prisoner of war in No. 206 Field Hospital at Landrecies from pneumonia.

Buried: Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-Au-Bois, France. Landrecies Communal Cemetery Memorial 15

Cross Roads Cemetery
Sergeant Robert Henry Edwards grave

Sergeant Robert Henry Edwards is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. John’s Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary and St. Cuthbert Priory War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.