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  • Edward William John Marsh †

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Born: 1 January 1885

Died: 23 August 1919

Served at Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine.

He returned to Australia on 4 July 1919. On 23 August 1919, while on holiday at Cullenbone, near Mudgee, he unexpectedly "died in his sleep from heart failure (syncope) caused by vomiting".

His Mosman address in the Embarkation Roll, 10 Milner Street, is that of his fiancee Muriel May Kendall (1891-1985).  Muriel never married. [JSB]

 

Service number
  • Service number 976
Rank
  • Held rank of Trooper
Birth record
  • 1885 in Kensington, Middlesex, England
Death record
  • 23 August 1919 in Cullenbone, NSW, Australia
Address
  • Hawthorn, 10 Milner Street, Mosman, NSW, Australia
Relationships
  • Father - John Strafford Marsh
  • Mother - Eleanor Louisa Tompkins
Organisations
  • 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment
  • 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
Main sources
  • MARSH Edward William John : Service Number - 976 : Place of Birth - London England : Place of Enlistment - Liverpool NSW : Next of Kin - (Father) MARSH J (webpage)
  • First World War Embarkation Rolls: Edward William John Marsh (webpage)
  • SOLDIER'S DEATH MUDGEE (newspaper article)
  • The Death at Cullenbone CAUSED BY SYNCOPE. ENDING AT THE INQUIRY. (newspaper article)
  • Death Notice (newspaper article)
  • IN MEMORIAM [23 August 1920] (newspaper article)
  • Commonwealth War Graves: Edward William John Marsh (webpage)

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