| Regimental number | 1922 |
| Place of birth | Galong, New South Wales |
| School | Binalong Public School, New South Wales |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Fireman |
| Address | c/o Mrs Edgeworth, P O Boorowa, Boorowa, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 26 |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Edgeworth, P O Boorowa, Boorowa, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 19th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/36/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A54 Runic on |
| Regimental number from Nominal Roll | 1922A |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 18th Battalion |
| Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | 'On the outbreak of the war he was seized with a desire to go and assist to fight for his Empire and Country.' Details from Wife. |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | France |
| Age at death | 28 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 28 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 85 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Commemorated on Binalong Public School Roll of Honour. Parents: James and Mary Williams EDGEWORTH; husband of Mary Ellen EDGEWORTH, Boorowa, New South Wales. Native of Binalong, New South Wales |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Taken on strength, D Company, 18th Bn, Gallipoli, 29 September 1915. Admitted to Hospital Ship 'Dongalia', Gallipoli, 1 December 1915; transferred to Bombay Presbyterian General Hospital, Alexandria, 5 December 1915; discharged to duty, 8 January 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 25 March 1916. Wounded in action, 27 July 1916 (gun shot wound, left knee and hip); transferred to England, 27 September 1916, and admitted to Norfolk War Hospital, Norwich, 30 July 1916. Discharged to Depot, 14 September 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 30 August 1917; rejoined 18th Bn, 9 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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