LYNCH, ARTHUR EDWARD or EDWARD ARTHUR

Photograph with kind permission from the Uttoxeter Advertiser

 

 

Source

CWGC

SDGW

Uttoxeter Advertiser

Other

Parents

Mrs. Jane Horobin

Yes

 

 

 

Where born

Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire

 

Yes

 

4

When born

22 January 1898

 

 

1c

 

Address

39, Dove Bank, Uttoxeter (mother and self)

Yes

 

1b, 1c, 1d, 1e

 

Formerly of Roe Buck Inn, Dove Bank, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire

 

 

 

4

Spouse

 

 

 

 

 

Children

 

 

 

 

 

Employment Before Joining up

Leighton Ironworks, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire

 

 

 

4

Where enlisted

Uttoxeter

 

Yes

 

4

Regiment

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Yes

Yes

1b

4

Formerly 2204, North Staffordshire Regiment

 

Yes

1a

 

Unit

2nd/1st Bucks Bn.

Yes

Yes

 

 

2/1st (T.F.)

 

 

 

4

Rank

Private

Yes

Yes

1a, 1b, 1d

 

Service Number

267184

Yes

Yes

 

4

Former Service

2204, North Staffordshire Regiment

 

 

 

4

Date of Death

22 August 1917

Yes

Yes

1b, 1c, 1d, 1e

4

Age at time of death

19

Yes

Yes

1b

 

Where Killed or died

Ypres salient – 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele – Gallipoli, St. Julien)

 

 

 

 

St. Julien, France

 

 

1c, 1d, 1e

 

France/Flanders

 

Yes

1b

 

How he died

Killed in Action

 

Yes

1b, 1d, 1e

4

Location of Grave or Memorial

Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing - Panel 97

Yes

 

 

5

Uttoxeter Town War Memorial

 

 

 

4

War Memorial inside Catholic Church in Balance Street, Uttoxeter

 

 

 

5

Awards

 

 

 

 

 

Before the war he lived with his mother.

He was a member of the Uttoxeter Territorials1b and was mobilised at the outbreak of war1a, 1b. His date of birth indicates that he was still only 16 when first mobilised. We wonder if his mother will have tried to get him out of the army as soon as the true nature of the war had become apparent? A lot of parents tried in vain to get their boy soldiers home.

The Roll of honour says that he died at Gallipoli St. Julien, France at just 19 years old.

 

He has no known grave and his name is recorded on a panel in the Tyne Cot Memorial. The Memorial Panels run along the walls which surround the back of Tyne Cot Cemetery.
The Tyne Cot Cemetery and the other cemeteries in the Ypres area contain many graves of unidentified soldiers. He may be one of them, or he may still lie where he fell, somewhere beneath the surrounding fields

 

He is also commemorated on the war memorial inside the Catholic Church in Balance Street

 

His mother’s grief at his death is only too apparent from the moving memorial notices that she placed in the Uttoxeter Advertiser:

 

This note was posted in January 19181c to mark what would have been his 20th birthday

 

 

This note was posted in the 'In Memoriam' column in August 19181d to mark the first anniversary of his death

 

 

The second anniversary of his death was marked in this way in August 19191e