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Full name Edward Richard James Hilsdon, born on 4 November 1887 in Woodstock, Oxon. Son of Edward Hilsdon and Emma Biggs. Brother of Cyril Hilsdon and Walter Hilsdon. They lived on Friday Lane and Edward junior was attending Wheatley Night School in 1911. He was a labourer on farm in 1901 and at a steam sawmills in 1911. He originally enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 11 December 1915 at Oxford. He was transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps. The Oxford Journal Illustrated... |