Private 10969 Edgar Albert Ivor FORTEY
Private 10969 Edgar Albert Ivor Fortey{gallery}Pte E A I Fortey{/gallery}1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 16th February 1917, aged 21
- Commemorated: Fins New British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. Panel 3
- Awarded British War and Victory Medals
- Son of Daniel and Clara Fortey of Hill Cottage, Much Marcle, Herefordshire
- NNWFHS Memorial: Atherstone
- Other War Memorial: Much Marcle
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Military, Census and Family History Information
- Born c1896 at Pixley, Herefordshire
- Lived at Much Marcle, Herefordshire [1911]
- Employed as a farm labourer [1911]
- Enlisted at Atherstone 10 Feb 1915
- 20 July 1915 Disembarked at Gallipoli and in December 1915 was invalided home
- 1 June 1916 sent to France and Flanders and was again wounded and invalided home on 27 Jul 1916
- October 1916 returned to France and Killed in Action on 16 Feb 1917
