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• Name WELD
• Initials EJ
• First name EDWARD JOSEPH
• Place of birth Mitcham
• Country Surrey, England
• Family Son of Joseph Edward and Francis Gertrude Weld Esq., Riversdale, Ware, Hertfordshire; a brother, James Joseph
• Education Wimbledon College; St.-Anthony's; Stonyhurst;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Takes up a commission in the Special Reserve of the RFA, August 1914
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 38th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 72nd Bty.
• Army - Corps - Division 6th Division
• National force B.E.F.

Death

• Wounded 26 September while moving down the road to the gun position
• Type of wounds Died of rifle bullet wounds in the stomach, in n°10 CCS; buried by abbé Tiberghien;
• Date of death 27 September 1915
• Died at the age of 18
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery I - A - 24

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