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• Name MOMBER
• Initials EMF
• First name EDWARD MARIE FELIX
• Place of birth Biarritz
• Country France
• Family Son of Frederick Ernest Robert and Eugenie Momber (nee Ardoin), of Hermitage, Biarritz, France.
• Education Stubbington House, Cheltenham College, Woolwich
• Profession Military man
• Extra info Two mine craters named after him on the western front - one at Vimy from 1916 when he commanded 176th Tunnelling Company and one at Railway Wood from 1917 when he commanded 177th Tunnelling Company

Military service

• Rank Major
• Medals D S O, M C
• Regiment and unit 177th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
• Army - Corps - Division ?
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Commissioned in 1907; served as adjutant of a fortress company, R.E. at Hong-Kong; to France December 1914; promoted Captain and formed a tunnelling coy; temporary Major in December 1915; D.S.O. for 'conspicious gallantry and skill in connexion with mining operations.'
  Blown up and left deafened by a trench mortar bomb at Vimy Ridge.

Death

• Wounded Messines Ridge, 18 June
• Type of wounds Died of wounds
• Date of death 20 June 1917
• Died at the age of 29
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - A - 19

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