EDMUND GEORGE DAWSON FROMANT
Edmund is remembered on the war memorial at Northgate High School. Formerly Ipswich Grammar School for Boys.
Born: 1893, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Died: 16th March 1915; age: 21; Died of Wounds received during the bombardment of Ypres.
Occupation: a Professional Associate of the Surveyors Institute and a Probationer of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Enlistment Location: Chelsea, S.W.
Date of Entry Therein: 19th January 1915 – France.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 246.
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps, 15th Sanitary Section.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
E.4.
Lille Gate,
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Relatives Notified & Address: Only son of Harry & Emily Fromant, of Guthrum House, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
CENSUS
1901 Angel Street, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Edmund was 7 years old and living with his parents and sister.
Uriah Harry Fromant, 46, a Solicitor’s Clerk, born Trumpington, Cambridgeshire.
Emily Fromant (nee King), 45, born Hadleigh.
Eleanor Charlotte Fromant, 6, born Hadleigh.
1 general domestic servant.
Soldiers’ Effects to Harry Fromant – father.
Edmund is also remembered on the war memorial at Hadleigh, and on a brass plaque inside St. Mary’s Church, Hadleigh.
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