Company Serjeant Major 17617 Edwin EYRE
20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action, Sunday 3rd September 1916, France, Age 29
Home address:
3 Cross Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1887, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Sarah Elizabeth Eyre and Thomas Eyre
Fall River Ward 6, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
Marital Status:
Married to Edith May Eyre (née Booth, later Thornley)
3 Buxton Road, Stockport, Cheshire
Occupation:
Cotton Spinner
Enlisted:
Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered:
Thiepval memorial, Somme, France, pier 13 or 14.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Awarded Military Medal.
A Message of Remembrance, written for Werneth Low Cenotaph Unveiling, 25th June 1921:
Baptist Church and Sunday School, Chapel Street, Hyde.
In ever-loving memory of Edwin Eyre, M.M., Harold W. Lockyear, Harold Slater,
John S. Pursglove, Jesse D. Schoolden, Andrew Leech, Fred Moores, and William Booth.
In ever-loving memory of Edwin Eyre, M.M., Harold W. Lockyear, Harold Slater,
John S. Pursglove, Jesse D. Schoolden, Andrew Leech, Fred Moores, and William Booth.