RIFLEMAN EDWARDS THOMAS
LONDON REGIMENT, THE RANGERS
10TH MAY 1915 AGE 24
BURIED: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, FRANCE
Thomas Edwards' mother has quoted her son's own words on his headstone: "To die for God, our King and our Country, it is grand". Thomas Edwards' army number indicates that he volunteered between 5 August and 7 September 1914, within the first month of the outbreak of war. The regiment saw action during the Second Battle of Ypres early in 1915, suffering very heavy casualties at Frezenberg Ridge on 8 May . Edwards died of wounds in hospital at Boulogne on 10 May.