Military service
Service number:
1247
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Birth:
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
January 23, 1915
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
July 1, 1916
Beaumont-Hamel, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
H. 10.
Additional information
Son of Arthur and Mary Gardner, of British Harbour, Trinity.
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Memorial
Headstone of Cyril and Edward James Gardner.<p> 1932 British Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Transcription of headstone: In Memory of 2nd Lieutenant Cyril Gardner killed in action April 14, 1917, age 31 years. Also Corporal Edward J. Gardner killed in action July 1st , 1916, age 24 years. White, Florence M. & Miller, James Type: Image General: Military, World War I -
Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
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Commemorative Plaque
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Inscription
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Lance Corporal Edward James Gardner
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward James Gardner
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward James Gardner
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward James Gardner
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Edward James Gardner
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 46 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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