Herbert Card Edmonds

A Private with the 57th Battalion, Herbert Card died on 2nd of October 1918 aged 20.

Herbert was born at Lowestoft in 1898, a son of James and Martha Ellen Edmonds. He was baptised at Saint John's Church, on 6 November 1898. At that time his family lived at 13 Wollaston Road. By 1911 they had moved to 44 Bevan Street.

Herbert enlisted at Lowestoft. A transcript of Soldiers Died in the Great War states that he had served with the Suffolk Regiment, number 48470, but this is not confirmed in any other source. We do know that he served in France with the 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, number 47871, and that on 12 March 1918 he was admitted to 48 Casualty Clearing Station with a fever, pyrexia, of unknown origin. Subsequently he was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.   

In late September 1918 the 57th Battalion were at the Marcoing Line, near Cambrai. There is no record of when, where, or how, Herbert was wounded, but given that he is buried at Boisleux-St. Marc, which was a base for many medical units, it seems likely that he was evacuated to a Casualty Clearing Station there and subsequently died of wounds. 

Herbert's brother James served with the East Surrey Regiment and died in 1917.