EDWIN ARTHUR DINES

Born: 1890, St. Margaret’s, Ipswich.

Died: 27th August 1918; age 28; KiA.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Date of Entry Therein: 9th May 1915 – France.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 43649

Regiment: Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire) Regiment, 8th Battalion.

Formerly S/2/105575, Royal Army Service Corps.

In December 1919, the body was exhumed and identified by a regimental cross marking the grave before reburial at Bernafay Wood British Cemetery.

Grave Reference:

M.48.

Bernafay Wood British Cemetery,

Montauban,

Somme,

France.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of R.T. & E. Dines; husband of Ada May Lake (formerly Dines), of 66, Victoria Street, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1891   5-7, Eagle Street, Ipswich.

Edwin was a year old and living with his parents & brothers.

Robert Thomas Dines, 34, a Baker & Confectioner – own account, born Ardleigh, Essex.

Emily Sophia Dines (nee Shepherd), 35, born Colchester, Essex.

Frederick Charles Dines, 11, born Colchester.

Percy Thomas Dines, 8, born Colchester.

Harold Robert Dines, 5, born Colchester.

Horace Robert Dines, 4, born St. Margaret’s, Ipswich.

1 servant.

1901   5-7, Eagle Street, Ipswich.

Edwin was 10 years old and living with his parents & brothers.

Robert, 44, a Baker & Confectioner – own account.

Emily, 44.

Harold, 16, a Butcher.

Horace, 14.

Herbert James Dines, 8, born St. Margaret’s, Ipswich.

George James Dines, 7, born St. Margaret’s, Ipswich.

+ a baker’s assistant.

1911   5-7, Eagle Street, Ipswich.

Edwin was 21 years old, a Baker & Confectioner. He was living with his parents, brothers & nephew.

Robert, 53, a Baker & Confectioner – own account.

Emily, 54.

George, 18, a Gas Fitter.

Frank William Dines, 10, born Debenham, Suffolk.

+ baker’s assistant.

On the 5^th October 1911, at All Saints Church, Ipswich, 20 year old Edwin, a baker, of 5 – 7, Eagle Street, Ipswich, married 22 year old Ada May Southgate, born 1889, Woodbridge, Suffolk – daughter of Joseph Southgate, a night dockman for the Urban District Council, and Mary Ann Southgate (nee Fryett), of Market Hill, Woodbridge.

Ada and Edwin had one daughter:

Doris Emily Dines, born July 1912, Ipswich, baptised in September 1912, at All Saints Church, Ipswich – family home at 17, Ainslie Road, Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Ada May Dines – widow.

Edwin is also remembered on the war memorial at Christ Church, Tacket Street, Ipswich and St. Michael’s Church, Ipswich.

Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire) Regiment, 8th Battalion:

http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/princess-charlotte-of-waless-royal-berkshire-regiment/