Sapper Robert Edwards
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 1883-10-22
Place of birth:
Marital status: no data
Date of death:
1917-02-15
Cause of death:
Accident
Buried:
Maple Copse Cemetery, Sp. Mem. E. 1.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 160764
Highest Rank:
Sapper
Rank detail
Sapper (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 480577
LAC ID:
374804
Service file: B2844-S048
Uploader's Notes: Son of Thomas and Margaret Edwards, of Harthill, Lanarkshire, Scotland. CEF Burial Registers - Killed Accidently. He was attached to the 2nd Canadian Tunnelling Company, and died from suffocation when a fire broke out in one of the galleries of a mine at MOUNT SORREL, about 10.40 P.M. on February 14th, 1917.
Uploader's Research notes: [Sapper Army Canadian Engineers No. 2 Tunnelling Company ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2015-10-16