EDWIN JAMES HUNTING
Born: 19th June 1896, Cross Keys Lane, Carr Street, Ipswich.
Baptised: 14th July 1896, at St. Michael’s Church, Ipswich – family home at Cross Keys Lane, Carr Street, Ipswich.
Died: 22nd March 1918; age 21; died of wounds at the No. 38 Field Ambulance.
Residence: Belvedere, 26, Cox Lane, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 43187.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 7th Battalion.
Formerly 2592, Suffolk Regiment.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
V.C.3.
Estaires Communal Cemetery & Extension.
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Only son of Walter E. & Jane Hunting, of 26, Cox Lane, Ipswich.
Brother-in-law to HENRY WALTER REDNALL.
CENSUS
1901 2, Cross Keys Lane, Ipswich.
Edwin was 4 years old and living with his parents & sisters.
Walter Edwin Hunting, 33, a Coachman – Domestic, born Leiston, Suffolk.
Sarah Jane Hunting (nee Tricker), 34, born Stowmarket, Suffolk.
Edith Sybilla Hunting, 12, born Ipswich.
Beatrice Elsie Hunting, 9, born Ipswich.
Gertrude May Hunting, 7, born Ipswich.
1911 26, Cox Lane, Ipswich.
Edwin was 14 years old and an Assistant Electrician in the theatre. He lived with his parents and sisters.
Walter, 42, a Stage Carpenter – Theatre.
Sarah, 44.
Edith, 22, a Machine Folder – Printing Works.
Beatrice, 19, a Book Binder – Printing Works.
Gertrude, 17, a Domestic Help – at home.
Soldiers’ Effects to Sarah J. Hunting – mother.
Edwin is commemorated on a headstone with his brother-in-law, Henry Walter Rednall (husband of Beatrice Elsie Hunting), who was KiA on the 2nd August 1917, at Ypres, at Ipswich Old Cemetery, section J.
Edwin’s sister, Gertrude May Hunting, was the beloved fiancée of SAMUEL JAMES HOWARD, a Private for the Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion, who was killed in action on the 28th November 1916, at the Somme, France.
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