Sapper 79952 Edwin LOVATT
Sapper 79952 Edwin Lovatt{gallery}Spr E Lovatt{/gallery}176th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 5th November 1915, aged 38
- Commemorated: Loos Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Panels 4 and 5
- Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
- Son of the late Richard and the late Elizabeth Lovatt
- NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments
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Military, Census and Family History Information
- Born Oct Qtr 1880 at Longton, Staffs
- Lived as a boarder at 182 The Green, Attleborough [1911]
- Employed as a regular soldier with York and Lancaster Regiment [10 Mar 1898 to 9 Mar 1910].
- Employed as a coal miner / loader [1911]
- Listed in Army Reserve 28 May 1910 to 27 May 1914
- Enlisted for WWI at Warwick, originally as Pte 10175 South Staffordshire Regiment. Arrived in Theatre 17 Dec 1914
