Private L/12834 Edwin Herbert Frisby
Regiment/Unit: 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers -
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Date Entered Therein: 15/08/1914
Age at death: 36
Date of death: 24th of March 1918
(Sunday)
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: Huddersfield
Burial / Memorial: Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension - I. A. 29.
BMD details:
Marriage:
3rd Qtr 1913 Edwin Herbert Frisby to Helen G Berry at Huddersfield, Yorks.
Vol 9a - Page 770.
The couple had a son named Edwin Herbert - he was born in 1914.
Family details:
Only son of Tom and Sarah Frisby, of Huddersfield; husband of Helen Gertrude Frisby, of 22, Hillhouse Lane, Huddersfield.
Census details:
1891 and 1901 Give his forename as Edward.
1891 - 8 years old Edward is living at 27 Clarence Street, Leicester with parents Tom (35), Sarah (32) and four siblings: Edith (11), Mabel (10), Lillian (6), Florence (1).
1901 - 20 years old 'Royal Marine - Private' Edward H is boarding at 21 Engagement Street, East Stonehouse (Military Base?).
1911 - Sees 27 years old 'Railway Goods Porter' Edwin H living at 22 Exeter Street, Bradford.
He is boarding with the Cartledge family.
[pic]tpics/EH_Frisby_9thLancers.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Edwin Herbert Frisby at
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
(Photograph courtesy of Margaret Dufay.)[/caption]
SHROH ref. 2908